14 DAY TRIAL // It was only a matter of time before the HDMI interface caught on for real and, sure enough, here it is just about ready to reach a major sales milestone in just a few years.
It appears that, having already secured its place on the digital television segment, the HDMI interface is growing in adoption in every other market that has any use for it.
More precisely, pretty much every digital TV set (DTV) out there that shipped this year (2011) has HDMI, as does almost every HD set top box.
Meanwhile, consumer electronics like Blu-ray players, media players, etc., all have shown a rising tendency to incorporate HDMI in their spec sheets.
Now, mobile phones, consumer desktops and mobile personal consumers are ready to make the difference between whether HDMI strikes through the 1 billion yearly products milestone or not.
According to NPD In-Stat, there should be over 1 billion HDMI-enabled device shipments in 2014.
Meanwhile, DVI product shipments will decrease by 9.4% each year through 2015 (HDMI will rise 17% annually).
“HDMI has become the universal interface for nearly all advanced CE devices, while DVI, although still significant in numbers, will have serious competition from technologies like DisplayPort in PCs and PC monitors,” says Brian O’Rourke, research director at NPD In-Stat.
“There is no roadmap for DVI to upgrade and AMD has announced that it will end DVI support in its chips by 2015, while HDMI adoption continues across a broad number of devices and markets.”
The digital camcorder market is one that will show HDMI a particularly high level of favor.
By the time 2015 comes and goes, about 65% of all yearly shipments should be of products with the interface built into them.
Meanwhile, adding insult to injury, DVI will lose to, or at least be challenged by, not just HDMI, but also the DisplayPort standard, on the corporate market anyway.