Unnamed Japanese and Korean CE are participants in China’s DiiVA ...
Unnamed Japanese and Korean CE are participants in China’s DiiVA Consortium and will be identified this quarter, Consumer Electronics Daily was told. That’s also when preliminary specs for the Digital Interactive Interface for Video and Audio are expected to…
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be disclosed; they originally were scheduled for publication in March (CED March 25 p5). “Unfortunately, due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the specifics,” said Steve Yum, spokesman for DiiVA and senior director of product planning at consortium co-founder Synerchip. “We will be in position to announce these things during the first half of this year,” Yum said, in reply to our query. DiiVA was entirely developed by nine Chinese companies. It’s a high-speed, hard-wired conduit for uncompressed video and audio with a bi-directional data channel, the consortium said. It has a maximum bandwidth of 13.5 Gbps. Uncompressed signals can be sent through the network from any DiiVA-enabled source to any DiiVA-enabled TV display, using “commodity cable such as CAT6A,” the consortium said. The 2.25 Gbps bi-directional data channel is capable of sending multiple protocols like HD video and audio, USB, Ethernet, commands “and content protection” simultaneously, the consortium said. It didn’t define what kind of copy-protection was supported -- such as industry-standards HDCP and DTCP -- and Yum didn’t provide a hard answer. “We recognize that content protection and broad-based industry support are very important to get this technology adopted, and we are working to make sure those issues are resolved when this technology will go to market,” he told us. Hollywood studios aren’t likely to approve any home-networking system that lacks controls to prevent premium content from escaping the home environment and becoming distributed on the Internet or elsewhere without authorization.