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What are the advantages of HDMI over existing analog video interfaces such as composite, S-Video, and Component video?

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What are the advantages of HDMI over existing analog video interfaces such as composite, S-Video, and Component video?

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• Quality: HDMI is an all-digital interface, so there are no analog-to-digital conversions or the other way round like in analog interfaces. This helps HDMI to provide a good audio and video quality. The difference is even more noticeable at higher resolutions like 1080p. Digital video will be sharper than component, and eliminates the softness and ghosting effect found in component. • Ease-of-use: In HDMI, there are no messy cables that are found in analog interfaces as it combines video and multi-channel audio into a single cable. • Intelligence: HDMI has link intelligence so automatic format conversion and single remote control are possible. • Which resolutions does HDMI support? HDMI supports all the existing HDTV resolutions (720p, 1080p, 1080i, 1440p), EDTV (480p), and SDTV (480i). • Which audio does HDMI support? HDMI includes support for 8-channel uncompressed digital audio as well as any compressed stream like Dolby Digital or DTS. HDMI supports up to 8 channels of one-bit aud