CEA-861-D
OpenLDI Open LVDS Display Interface [7]
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier
SACD Super Audio CD
SADB Speaker Allocation Data Block
SDTV Standard Definition Television
SMPTE Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers
STB Set-Top Box
SVD Short Video Descriptor
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VSDB Vendor Specific Data Block
WMA Pro Windows Media Audio Professional
2.4 Compliance Notation
As used in this document, “shall” denotes mandatory provisions of the standard. “Should” denotes a
provision that is recommended but not mandatory. “May” denotes a feature whose presence does not
preclude compliance and implementation of which is optional. “Optional” denotes items that may or may
not be present in a compliant device.
3 Overview
CEA-861-D describes requirements for video sources and DTV Monitors that include an uncompressed,
baseband, digital video interface. These requirements apply to any baseband digital video interface that
makes use of VESA E-EDID (structures for discovery of supported video formats) [9] and supports 24-bit
RGB. The 60 Hz/59.94 Hz video timings are based on analog formats already standardized in CEA-
770.2-C [19] and CEA-770.3-C [20]. A preferred physical/link interface is not specified in CEA-861-D. See
the annexes on how to apply CEA-861-D to the individual interfaces available at the time of this writing.
Digital Visual Interface (DVI 1.0) [3] and OpenLDI 0.95 [7] can be used to enable minimal digital interface
functionality. To take advantage of these enhancements, the physical interface also needs a way to
transport CEA InfoFrames, digital audio, and YC
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pixels from the source device to the DTV Monitor.
The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) [29] is now available to take advantage of these
enhancements.
Enhanced Extended Display Identification Data (E-EDID) was created by VESA to enable plug and play
capabilities of monitors. This data, which would be stored in the DTV Monitor, describes video formats
that the DTV Monitor is capable of receiving and rendering. The information is supplied to the source
device, over the interface, upon the request of the source device. The source device then chooses its
output format, taking into account the format of the original video stream and the formats supported by
the DTV Monitor. The source device (e.g., STB) is responsible for the format conversions necessary to
supply video in an understandable form to the DTV Monitor.
CEA-861-D includes the sink device’s ability to describe other capabilities in the E-EDID, in addition to
supported video formats (e.g., digital audio). In those cases, the same basic mechanism applies (i.e., the
source device reads EDID data in the DTV Monitor to determine its capabilities and then the source
device only sends what the DTV Monitor can understand).
The physical/link standards in Annex B, Annex C and Annex D do not support transport of closed
captioning (CEA-608-C and CEA-708-C); therefore, the source device processes these elements.
Specifically, if closed captioning is to be displayed, it is decoded by the source device, inserted into the
video and displayed as open captions. Similarly, if system Information, program information, events,
service descriptors, etc. are displayed, related graphical information is inserted into the video by the
source device. Control of closed captioning settings, programs, events, etc. is a feature of the source
device, not supported by this interface and beyond the scope of CEA-861-D.
Furthermore, content advisory user menus, settings and blocking are accommodated in the source
device, and are beyond the scope of CEA-861-D.
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