The HDMI Plug
As illustrated in Figure below, an HDMI connector contains 19 pins, which include:
TMDS data channels (6 pins): these carry the digital data representing audio and video. Video data are always sent in an uncompressed format and includes horizontal and vertical blanking intervals. Audio data, which can consist of any compressed,non-compressed, PCM, single or
TMDS clock channel (2 pins): this is a reference clock signal that enables the receiving device to robustly recover the data stream.
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As illustrated in Figure below, an HDMI connector contains 19 pins, which include:
TMDS data channels (6 pins): these carry the digital data representing audio and video. Video data are always sent in an uncompressed format and includes horizontal and vertical blanking intervals. Audio data, which can consist of any compressed,non-compressed, PCM, single or
multi-channel formats (including the new DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD formats for blue laser DVDs), fit into the video blanking intervals and are sent as HDMI packets.
TMDS clock channel (2 pins): this is a reference clock signal that enables the receiving device to robustly recover the data stream.
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