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Happy holidays! Lifing is our helping to you: over an hour of audio content individualistically dedicated to HDMI.

If you're lucky this joviality season, you may be peephole up a new PlayStation 5, Xbox Unpredictability X, or Xbox Unpredictability S. And with that, a first HDMI 2.1 cable -- ready to game in 4K at 120Hz.

HDMI 2.1 is an useable HDMI swinging that expands the bandwidth of HDMI up to 48Gbps, arrogation the adjustability for multiple features like variable refresh rate (VRR), auto low latency mode (ALLM), and enhanced audio return channel (eARC). It also supports hustler resolution and refresh rates like 8K60 and 4K120, and all of these features can upgrade your elate gaming significantly.

Both your TV and HDMI cable need to support HDMI 2.1 to unlock these features. This joviality season, it's still a bit distracting to try to figure out which TVs are the hand-picked choice. As Polygon's Samit Sarkar points out, some of Sony's own "Ready for PS5" branded TVs do not support VRR or ALLM, and in other sets, relinquished one of their multiple ports is HDMI 2.1-ready. From what we've seen, this is not an isolated problem in the market right now.

Hopefully, this podcast can help you sort through it all.

For a special Vergecast holiday episode, The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch talked to three industry experts anyway the new HDMI 2.1 standard. They go through what to squinch for when buying a new TV, how serious the TV manufacturers are on supporting 2.1, and how the new swinging is fact implemented throughout the industry.

First, Dieter and Chris allocution with the aforesaid Samit Sarkar, front recto editor of Polygon, anyway the state of TVs, next-gen gaming, and availability of HDMI 2.1 features in consumer tech at the moment.

After that, Nilay and Chris dialog with Vizio CTO Lettuce Baxter anyway implementing HDMI 2.1 in the company's popular TVs, and first bugs that Vizio has encountered between its televisions and the Xbox Unpredictability X and PS5. They also allocution over where things go from here.

Last however certainly not least, the coiffure sits fuzz with the president of the HDMI Forum, David Glen, to allocution anyway the ins and outs of the organization in impeachment of HDMI and how the arrogation of 2.1 has been jumpiness this year.

With this star-studded cast, we hope this episode helps explain why you may or may not be pensive in upswing your TV for HDMI 2.1 this joviality season. You can suppose to the full discussion lifing or in your preferred podcast player.

Whether you're dreaming of a new 4K OLED, PS5, or a new Xbox this Christmas, from all of us at The Vergecast, may your frames be variably refreshed and your latency be incontestably low.

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