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What is UHD?

UHD is the television industry's name for what everyone else calls 4K. The numbers are not quite identical, which is why both terms exist.

In plain language

Ultra High Definition is 3840 x 2160 — exactly four Full HD frames. Cinema 4K (DCI) is 4096 x 2160, slightly wider. In everyday use 4K and UHD are treated as the same thing, and for consumer content they effectively are.

FUHD, Full Ultra High Definition, is the 8K step: 7680 x 4320.

Why it matters in your setup

Mostly it matters when reading specification sheets, where a device may list UHD and DCI separately. A display that accepts UHD does not automatically accept the wider DCI variant, which occasionally surprises people feeding it from a computer or a cinema player.

What the DR HDMI 8K does with it

The DR HDMI 8K lists support for SD, HD, Full HD, UHD and FUHD, including DCI formats with DSC. Its EDID library covers the UHD range in detail, from 4K120 down to 4K24, so you can advertise a specific UHD capability rather than a vague one.

DR HDMI 8K in one line: it is a 48Gbps HDMI 2.1 EDID manager, emulator and repeater that sits between your source and the rest of the chain, so you can see what is being negotiated and decide what the source is allowed to see — instead of guessing which device is at fault. What it is and what it solves →

Need the hardware?

Open the DR HDMI 8K product page on HDfury.uk.

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