MegaChips' MCDP2900 is an advanced DisplayPort 1.4-to-HDMI 2.0 protocol converter targeted for TVs, game consoles, and other consumer equipment as well as for mobile PC, tablet accessory applications. This device is an active protocol converter with HDCP1.x / HDCP2.2 repeater supporting HDR video quality for deep color media content playback. This device is suitable for video sources such as BD players, game consoles, and STBs for streaming 4K HDR protected content over HDMI 2.0 interface. It is also a seemly solution for AV sinks and branch devices such as TVs, monitors, docking stations, and dongles with DP input or USB Type-C input supporting DP Alt mode.

The MCDP2900 supports UHD video formats, resolutions as high as 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz in RGB / YCbCr video color formats with a color depth of 16 bpc as long as it fits within the DP and HDMI link bandwidth. This device supports pixel-encoding conversion from RGB or YCbCr420 function. Thus HDR video with deep color up to 12 bpc at 4Kp60Hz is supported through the conversion of RGB / YCbCr444 over DP link with horizontal expansion to CEA timings to YCbCr420 on the HDMI TX output.

The MCDP2900 has higher level of security features such as encrypted on-chip key storage, secure firmware, secure boot, and protected IOs. It is a low power device with enhanced ESD protection.