HDMI 1.3 Is Named Innovations 2007 Design And Engineering Award Honoree

November 13, 2006

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) today announced that HDMI Licensing, LLC, on behalf of the HDMI Founders, is an International CES Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the HDMI 1.3 specification. Products considered for this prestigious award program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge consumer electronics products. The HDMI Founders include Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson and Toshiba. In June 2006, the HDMI Founders announced the HDMI 1.3 specification, the most significant upgrade yet in the interface that has become the de facto standard interface for high-definition devices. HDMI 1.3 more than doubles HDMI's bandwidth and adds support for Deep Color technology, a broader color space, new digital audio formats, automatic audio/video synching capability ("lip sync") and an optional smaller connector for use with portable devices such as digital still cameras and camcorders. "We are very pleased that the HDMI 1.3 specification was named an International CES 2007 award honoree," said Leslie Chard, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. "This award validates HDMI's technical leadership and the great work done by the seven HDMI founding members, who have made HDMI an evolving specification that consistently enables next generation technologies to be brought to the mass market. We expect that many products with HDMI 1.3 will be announced and demonstrated at CES 2007." As a widely-renowned consumer technology awards program that began in 1989, the Innovations Design and Engineering Awards recognize achievements in product design and engineering. It is sponsored by CEA, the producer of the International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the voice of industrial design, committed to advancing the profession through education, information, community and advocacy. HDMI Licensing, LLC will be demonstrating capabilities of the HDMI 1.3 specification at the 2007 International CES, which runs Jan. 8-11, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase will feature honorees by product category at Innovations Plus at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Booth #68747. Innovations honoree products are featured on www.CESweb.org/Innovations, including a list of product categories, as well as each product name, manufacturer information, designer, description, photo and URL.

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