A press release from Blue Jean Cable, my go to cable source.
Blue Jeans Cable (1 Sep 2020)
Well, it's been a long wait. But today, we finally received notice from the HDMI Licensing Administrator that the compliance spec is in place, the Authorized Testing Centers are set up to test Category 3 "Ultra High Speed" HDMI cables (often described by others, though inaccurately, as "HDMI 2.1 cables"), and that the labels which are to be affixed to each certified cable to attest to the certification are available for ordering. What's this mean?
First, if before today you've bought a cable claiming to be an "HDMI 2.1 cable" or otherwise claiming compliance to the 2.1 spec for delivery of 48 Gbps signals, you've been misled and you should probably get your money back.
Second, it will soon be possible to buy an actual certified cable for 48 Gbps. How soon? We don't know. But scammers will be more active than ever now, so it's very important to see that holographic sticker from HDMI Licensing -- if it doesn't bear a sticker which tells you it's a certified UHS cable, it's not a certified cable. Don't accept excuses from dishonest vendors. We will never claim an uncertified cable is certified, and when we do have certified cables we will let you know that, immediately and unambiguously.
Third: customers will undoubtedly want to know when we will have these. We have bulk cable on order, and we are awaiting delivery of that. Once we have it, we must have prototypes made for testing and we must submit them to the ATCs. At this point it's impossible to imagine that we will have Series-FE UHS certified cables on hand in anything less than three months, and the better guess is probably on the order of six months. We will keep you posted.
Will our existing Series-FE cables do the job? They might work, in practice, up to some length. But they can't be certified for it because there is a new authorized connector list for UHS cables, and so the UHS certified version will, at a minimum, have to have a new connector and the certification will not be applicable "backward" to our existing inventory.
Blue Jeans Cable (1 Sep 2020)
Well, it's been a long wait. But today, we finally received notice from the HDMI Licensing Administrator that the compliance spec is in place, the Authorized Testing Centers are set up to test Category 3 "Ultra High Speed" HDMI cables (often described by others, though inaccurately, as "HDMI 2.1 cables"), and that the labels which are to be affixed to each certified cable to attest to the certification are available for ordering. What's this mean?
First, if before today you've bought a cable claiming to be an "HDMI 2.1 cable" or otherwise claiming compliance to the 2.1 spec for delivery of 48 Gbps signals, you've been misled and you should probably get your money back.
Second, it will soon be possible to buy an actual certified cable for 48 Gbps. How soon? We don't know. But scammers will be more active than ever now, so it's very important to see that holographic sticker from HDMI Licensing -- if it doesn't bear a sticker which tells you it's a certified UHS cable, it's not a certified cable. Don't accept excuses from dishonest vendors. We will never claim an uncertified cable is certified, and when we do have certified cables we will let you know that, immediately and unambiguously.
Third: customers will undoubtedly want to know when we will have these. We have bulk cable on order, and we are awaiting delivery of that. Once we have it, we must have prototypes made for testing and we must submit them to the ATCs. At this point it's impossible to imagine that we will have Series-FE UHS certified cables on hand in anything less than three months, and the better guess is probably on the order of six months. We will keep you posted.
Will our existing Series-FE cables do the job? They might work, in practice, up to some length. But they can't be certified for it because there is a new authorized connector list for UHS cables, and so the UHS certified version will, at a minimum, have to have a new connector and the certification will not be applicable "backward" to our existing inventory.
