HDMI Enabled Products To Grow By 462%

August 31, 2004 By Ian Bell

Research firm In-Stat/MDR says that HDMI enabled products will grow by 462% compared to 34.3% for regular DVI enabled products.

Although the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) has continued to gain design wins in PCs and a handful of PC peripherals, High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) will find even more success in theConsumer Electronics (CE) market, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm expects that DVI-enableddevices will grow at a rapid 34.3% rate between 2003 and 2008. However, the annual growth rate of HDMI-enabled products will be a stratospheric 462.3% over the same period, though starting from amuch lower base point.

“Over the past year, DVI has continued to gain design wins in PCs, particularly consumer desktops, where sophisticated graphics cards are being designed into more mainstream PCs,” said Brian O’Rourke, a senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. DVI has also had some success in the notebook PC space, where docking stations often sold with business models include DVI ports. DVI is also found in PC peripherals such as LCD PC monitors, where DVI is driven by increasing penetration of the PC market. Business projectors have also been increasing their inclusion of DVI, as have commercial plasma displays and signs. DVI has had some impact over the last few years in selected CE markets, particularly digital televisions and set top boxes. However, according to O’Rourke, “HDMI is really gaining ground in the CE market with its audio support and a smaller connector compared to the DVI spec.” It is in the process of overtaking DVI in CE products, including digital televisions, set top boxes and DVD players.

In-Stat/MDR has also found that:

— The HDMI standard is backed by several large CE vendors, including Sony, Philips, and Matsushita, which bodes well for its success in this segment.

— The transition from DVI to HDMI in CE began in 2004, and should accelerate significantly in 2005.

— HDMI will have a more difficult time in PCs and PC peripherals, where DVI is expected to remain popular. However, HDMI will have some impact in media-centric PCs that may attach to the home CE cluster.

— DVI will be in a majority of LCD monitors and business projectors by the end of 2008. Displays and signs is also a fast growing, though small market, for DVI.

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Vernon Fowler at 1:41pm 5th March 2006 I purchased an HDTV in mid 2002. It was a wide screen tube type HD TV that should give good service for at least 10 years. In looking into the updcoming availability of HD DVDs I started looking into getting a HD DVD player. This is when I found out that me and a lot of other people have been short changed on our early purchases. It seems, soley due to a copy protection scheme, my TV will not play HD DVDs.(no HDMI or DVI inputs) It's not due to a technical issue, as the current method could have worked for many years. It all boils down to protecting the media from copy protection. I don't know how many people this will affect but I would think it would be in the millions. I'm also suprised that the FCC allowed this without any thought to backward compatibility. My tv, that I paid about $3000 is about to be down valued to almost nothing. If I want to watch HD DVDs I will be forced to purchase a new TV. It seems that the consumer is going to take a beating on this while the media and electronics companies are going to see a windfall. I think that a path of backward compatibility should be forced or a policy to accept trade ins(with reasonable values) to upgrade to compatible sets should be established.