Specifications, Versions, and Capabilities According to IDC and Silicon Image estimates, there will be over 15 million HDMI-enabled digital televisions at the end of 2005, growing to nearly 50 million units at the end of 2007. There are expectations that there will be 125 million HDMI-enabled devices in the market by 2007. In excess of six million HDMI-enabled consumer electronics devices were shipped in 2004, up from a mere 250,000 in 2003. The group's charter was to define the next-generation digital interface specification for consumer electronics products. The HDMI Working Group was announced in April of 2002 and included Hitachi, Panasonic, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson, and Toshiba. HDMI would be fully compatible with DVI.By design, HDMI was intended to be a smaller, more consumer-friendly connection (we would argue this last point due to lack of strain relief and any mechanism to secure the connection in place).HDMI offered 'link intelligence' enabling devices to automatically 'discover' each other and recognize resolutions & formats.HDMI could carry both uncompressed high definition video (with support for SDTV and HDTV color spaces) along with all existing multi-channel audio formats and even device control data in a single connector.

Later in the year, HDMI also emerged as a digital transmission format, but addressed some specific needs tailored to the consumer electronics market: By the end of that year, well over 500 consumer electronics products featured a DVI connection, with approximately 80% of DTVs shipped to the US using that technology. This included DTVs, high definition set -top boxes and computer graphics boards. Starting around 2003 we saw a rapid adoption of the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) across the digital consumer market.

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