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Top Tier Phone Makers Working on New HD Cable for Phones

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Apr 15, 2010, 9:42 AM   by Philip Berne
updated Apr 15, 2010, 10:04 AM

Nokia, Samsung, Sony and others have banded together to form the Mobile High-Definition Link Consortium (MHL) with the goal of creating a new unified interface to connect phones and other mobile devices to larger, high-definition home theater systems. The group originally formed in September of last year as the Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group, and now the companies have moved forward for form a Consortium, as promised. The new port will feature high-definition video at 1080p resolution and digital audio sound. Phones connected with the new technology will also be powered by the unified cable, a key difference from existing mini-HDMI ports. Like HDMI, the new MHL interface will be secured with the HDCP protocol.

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justfinethanku

Apr 15, 2010, 10:03 AM

"Top Tier" ??????

Nokia, Samsung, Sony...

I could be mistaken, and mind you, it's only an opinion... but these guys haven't really been "top tier" in years. At least in the US.
The Us is only a small fraction of the global phone market. I dont know about sony, but Samsung and Nokia are two of the largest international phone companies right now. Nokia dwarfs pretty much everyone else
SellPhones82

Apr 15, 2010, 11:12 AM

No need...

Just stick with HDMI/mini HDMI since every TV launched in the last 5 years or more has at leat one HDMI imput as well as high end laptops.
Here is the reason why they mention on their website.

Why is an additional connectivity solution needed, and doesn’t HDMI® already offer these capabilities?

This solution will be optimized specifically for
...
(continues)
I agree, just make it a microHDMI on one end and an standard HDMI port on the other end.
 
 
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