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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
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Lewis Empson

HDMI gets a new Chinese competitor – and it could be 8K's saviour

A TV showing a mountain with a GPMI module attached.

HDMI has been the universal standard for connecting TV, AV and home cinema equipment for quite some time, after it made its debut in 2002. Now, 23 years later, there is a rival on the scene – better late than never, we suppose.

General Purpose Media Interface – GPMI – is a sternly titled new standard that comes in two flavours, Type-C and Type-B, both of which are set to surpass the current HDMI 2.1 standard in terms of claimed bandwidth.

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