BANGALORE, INDIA: Royal Philips Electronics has inaugurated India's first HDMI Authorized Testing Center (ATC) laboratory at its 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 eighth 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.

"HDMI is poised to play a bigger role in the availability and consumption of high-definition digital media and this ATC will be catalytic in speeding the time-to-market of HDMI compliant products. Consumers will be the direct beneficiary of this test facility because HDMI compliance testing promotes interoperability and helps to ensure that purchased entertainment solutions with HDMI will work together efficiently," said Jelle Rieske, Senior Director, Consumer Lifestyle, Philips Innovation Campus.

"With our existing competencies on HDMI Interoperability and HDMI CEC testing, setting up of the HDMI ATC lab is an indication of our growing commitment towards increasing the Innovation base at Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore," said Mr. Alexius Collette, CEO, Philips Innovation Campus.

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, as per 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.