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		radicality on Dec 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025 Why aren’t they all hdmi 2.0, isn’t it backwards compatible? Or it’s just to save them a $ while technically still being able to advertise it as hdmi 2.0 ?

doubled112 on Dec 14, 2024 | [–]

I'm going to assume it was cost cutting.

The boss said to make sure it had an HDMI 2 port. The engineer could have interpreted it two ways, so they did both ways in one.

Iulioh on Dec 14, 2024 | [–]

Probably it would need a better CPU to handle more traces and that's the real expense

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