China's DIVA Wants To Go Head To Head With HDMI

A group of Chinese companies have formed the DIVA consortium in order to develop a new A/V interface spec, unsurprisingly called DIVA, that the consortium plans to market as an improvement on the popular HDMI interface. Apparently the China Video Industry Association has thrown its full support behind the new interface spec which the consortium claims can be used to operate AV equipment through TV's without any compression. And how exactly is it different from HDMI? Because the transmission of AV data is bi-directional, entire home networks can be set up by connecting devices using DIVA.

Via Tech-on

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