About seven years after the HDMI 2.1 specification was introduced, the HDMI Forum has announced the next generation: HDMI 2.2, which will require new cables to take advantage of its most high-performance features.

The new HDMI 2.2 specification promises to fix the standard’s biggest shortcomings by boosting video bandwidth, improving video synchronization, and enabling higher refresh rates. However, you will need new cables.

To handle the increased bandwidth, HDMI 2.2 requires new cables. Though colloquially these will almost certainly get called "HDMI 2.2 cables" their actual name is Ultra96. Mercifully, the connector is the same, so you won't need to replace all your cables if you get a device with HDMI 2.2.

HDMI Forum announces HDMI 2.2 with doubled bandwidth and improved audio sync, requiring new Ultra96 cables for next-generation display capabilities.

The HDMI Forum had hinted at the reveal of HDMI 2.2 at CES in December. As we predicted then, the latest standard does not require a

Discover the new HDMI 2.2 spec featuring 96Gbps bandwidth, supporting 12K120 resolution, and enhancing audio-video synchronization with the Ultra96 HDMI Cable.

With the increasing popularity of 4K and even 8K displays, today at CES 2025 the HDMI Forum officially revealed version 2.2 of the HDMI spec. While the shape of the connector and its general capabilities aren’t changing a ton,