The HDMI Holiday Spec-tacular

The Vergecast

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Technology, Tech News, News

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

For a special Vergecast holiday episode, The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch talk to three industry experts about the new HDMI 2.1 standard: Polygon's front page editor Samit Sarkar, Vizio CTO Bill Baxter, and HDMI Forum president David Glen. The Vergecast crew discuss what to look for when buying a new TV, how serious the TV manufacturers are on supporting 2.1, and how the new standard is being implemented throughout the industry. Happy holidays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast HDMI Holiday Spectacular featuring special guests Bill Baxter, CTO of
0:11.6	Visio, submit Sarkar, front page editor of Polygon, HDMI forum president David Glenn, and
0:21.7	now here's your host, Neely Patel.
0:27.5	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast HDMI Holiday Spectacular.
0:31.6	It's Chris Maseve.
0:34.0	A chill has fallen over the world.
0:36.8	As we await, our new televisions and game consoles.
0:40.6	All the children we're sleeping, all the ports were unplugged, and we are going to spend
0:46.0	the next hour talking about HDMI.
0:49.6	I'm Neely Patel, Deeter Bones here.
0:51.8	Hi, I'm so excited.
0:53.8	Chris Welch is here.
0:54.8	It's my favorite time of year.
0:57.0	An all-star lineup of guests will be joining us, Bill Baxter, CTO of Visio, one of the nation's
1:05.1	largest TV manufacturers.
1:08.2	David Glenn, president of the HDMI forum.
1:11.8	Did you know there was an HDMI forum?
1:13.9	There is, and he's the president, the man in charge of HDMI, on the Vergecast HDMI
1:18.4	Holiday Spectacular.
1:19.4	He's like the Santa of HDMI.
1:21.2	Truly, the Santa of HDMI, submit Sarkar from Polygon.
1:25.4	Tell us all about the new game consoles, the features of HDMI they support, and those
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