HDMI Licensing LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the HD Multimedia Interface (HDMI) spec, recently reduced the annual administration fee for HDMI adopters from $15,000 to $10,000. The group said the fee slash was made possible by HDMI's growing success in the marketplace. More than 400 makers of consumer elec

An extraction of the 3D portion of the spec is available to everyone on the HDMI Web site.

The fees, mandated by Congress, are intended to recover what the commission spends to regulate the airwaves.

As part of the agreement, over-the-air broadcasters with fewer than 100,000 households would pay no participation fee.

A license fee structure, proposed this week for the latest MPEG iteration contained a red flag that may give Microsoft a leg up in the realm of compression technology. The proposal, put forth by patent licensing firm, MPEG LA, called for usage fees in addition to one-time hardware and software royalties for H.264/MPEG-

The oft-bandied revenue resource rises again

According to research organization In-Stat, HDMI-enabled product shipments will increase at an annual rate of 23 percent through 2012

HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High Definition Multimedia Interface specification, has announced the latest revision of HDMI--version 1.2. The company said more than 250 vendors worldwide have now adopted HDMI via the rollout of nearly 500 HDMI-enabled products. HDMI, a relatively new typ