Posted by: jon.m
on Apr 23, 2009
In the Smart Home Pro world of custom integration, we've been dealing with digital video and audio signals for a while, now. As with most in our industry, we've had our share of frustrations with "changing" standards.
The future is most definitely digital, even though analog signals won't go away for a long time. But the industry's investments and development are applied toward digital technologies. The biggest player in digital signals is HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface). If you've shopped for TVs recently, you see all televisions come with HDMI inputs now.
Aside from some early growing pains, HDMI is fairly reliable. One big advantage to HDMI is a single wire carries both video and audio, in high quality.