Royal Philips Electronics announced the inauguration of India's first High Definition Multimedia Interface^TM (HDMI^TM) Authorized Testing Center (ATC) laboratory in its Bangalore based Philips Innovation Campus. The test centre will facilitate HDMI compliance testing services as per HDMI Compliance Test Specification (CTS) 1.3b. The center is Philips' only HDMI ATC globally and the 8th HDMI ATC to be opened worldwide. 

Philips has increased the global testing capacity for HDMI compliant solutions with the inaugural of this testing facility in India. This facility will help meet market demand for HDMI technology adhered to compliance and drive interoperability with other HDMI devices. With over 800 companies adopting HDMI as a standard for their products globally, the market holds huge potential for the technology standard. Globally, over 200 million devices featuring HDMI are expected to ship in 2008, with an installed base of nearly one billion HDMI devices by 2010 (In-Stat). Philips ATC is equipped to perform all of the testing as mandated in HDMI CTS1.3b, including High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) Compliance testing and HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronic Control) testing. The HDMI consortium mandates that a product should pass compliance testing at an ATC before it can bear the logo of HDMI and claim conformance to the HDMI specification.

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