According to a press release published at PRNewswire, HDMI connections are rapidly diffusing into the PC market. There are already more than 50 HDMI PC products currently available, including nearly two dozen desktop and notebook PCs, families of HDMI PC monitors from major manufacturers and a broad range of motherboards and graphics cards with HDMI outputs.
A contribute to this diffusion is given by the rising availability of hi resolution screens, that can work at higher resolutions only with HDMI interface, so media center PCs must have a HDMI interface. However, also monitor PC producers are starting to introduce low-cost HDMI monitors to respond to the recent surge of PCs with HDMI outputs.
Another factor that is accelerating the adoption of HDMI in the consumer PC market is Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, which requires a HDMI interface to run multimedia functions and the ability to access and play back premium HD content from a variety of sources including ATSC tuners, digital cable tuners, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Discs.
