{"id":177893,"date":"2016-09-01T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177893"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:58:05","slug":"usb-c-will-have-native-hdmi-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/177893-usb-c-will-have-native-hdmi-support.html","title":{"rendered":"USB-C will have native HDMI support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HDMI Licensing has announced that\u00a0a new version of the USB-C standard will have native support for HDMI, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/new-version-of-usb-c-enables-hdmi-output-without-dongles\" target=\"_blank\">CNET reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Compatible smartphones, tablets,\u00a0and\u00a0laptops will be able to connect to a TV or display with a USB Type-C to HDMI cable without needing a converter.<\/p>\n<p>Not all devices will support the new standard, called &#8220;HDMI Alt Mode&#8221;, and will have to be designed to output HDMI over USB-C ports.<\/p>\n<p>The new standard is not backwards compatible and a software upgrade will not enable the functionality in existing devices.<\/p>\n<p>HDMI Alt Mode supports up to HDMI 1.4b\u00a0&#8211; supporting\u00a04K, Audio Return Channel, 3D, HDMI Ethernet Channel, and Consumer Electronic Control.<\/p>\n<p>It currently does not support HDR\u00a0or 4K streaming that uses the HDMI 2.2 standard.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on USB Type-C<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/177123-dont-remove-the-iphones-headphone-jack-warns-steve-wozniak.html\"><strong>Don\u2019t remove the iPhone\u2019s headphone jack, warns Steve Wozniak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/176311-why-losing-the-headphone-jack-for-usb-type-c-is-a-good-thing.html\"><strong>Why losing the headphone jack for USB Type-C is a good thing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/156253-all-the-things-you-can-do-with-usb-type-c-and-thunderbolt.html\"><strong>All the things you can do with USB Type-C and Thunderbolt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/154278-warning-cheap-usb-c-cables-can-kill-your-pc.html\"><strong>Warning: cheap USB-C cables can kill your PC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of USB Type-C will have native support for HDMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":154280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,30834],"class_list":["post-177893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-usb-type-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177939,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177893\/revisions\/177939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}