{"id":175324,"date":"2025-04-29T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.islabit.com\/en\/?p=175324"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:41:07","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-hdmi-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islabit.com\/en\/175324\/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-hdmi-2-2.html","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about the new HDMI 2.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently announced at the CES 2025<\/strong>, HDMI 2.2 is the next-generation HDMI standard<\/strong> that will double available bandwidth for higher resolution and refresh rate support. It will use a new cable to support all these new standards and introduce new advanced features for improved audio and video syncing between different devices.<\/p>\n

HDMI 2.2 new cable won\u2019t arrive until later this year<\/strong> and television sets won\u2019t be supporting the new standard yet. In this article we explore everything you need to know about the new HDMI standard<\/a> and its features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HDMI 2.2 and its possibilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The main feature of HDMI 2.2 is that it allows for up to double the bandwidth of existing Ultra High Speed HDMI cables<\/strong> with the 2.1 protocol. The HDMI 2.2 is rated for up to 96 Gbps, introducing support for native 16K resolution without compression. It also runs native 4K 240Hz without compression. Including DSC the new HDMI protocol should support monitors up to 4K 480Hz or 8K in excess of 120Hz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no consumer TVs or monitor that support such resolutions and refresh rates at the time, but in the future augmented and virtual reality headsets will surely make use of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDMI 2.2 will also support the new Latency Indication Protocol<\/strong> (LIP) to help make sure audio is synchronized with video, especially for configurations that include external A\/V systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to support these new resolutions and refresh rates<\/strong> you have to use a new HDMI 2.2 certified Ultra96 cable design. These cables will be backwards compatible with all previous HDMI versions, but will only reach maximum supported speed of the lowest link in the chain. So a HDMI 2.2 cable plugged into a port of HDMI 2.0 won\u2019t be using the full bandwidth of the cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDMI 2.2 vs. HDMI 2.1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The HDMI 2.1 protocol was a great innovation back in 2017. But it only began working in 2020 and 2021 with full support devices. It triples HDMI 2.0 bandwidth and allows for true 4K 120Hz support. This is a very important feature for the latest generation of video game consoles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDMI 2.1 also introduced a wide range of new features that seemed hard to surpass by then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n