Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is a bi-directional serial bus using the industry standard AV.Link protocol for remote control of electronic devices.
Optional component of the HDMI interface; currently the bus standard is regulated by the so-called CEC Implementation Guidelines published by HDMI Licensing, LLC. HDMI-CEC technology is supported by most modern media systems (TVs, home cinemas, HTPC , etc.), but this technology is little supported on personal computers.
CEC was developed for the convenience of controlling various consumer electronics devices with a single control panel and is based on the SCART standard [1] . The connection scheme supports up to 10 devices simultaneously.
Application
CEC technology is being presented by various manufacturers for the end user under different brand names:
- Anynet + [2] ( Samsung )
- Aquos Link ( Sharp )
- BRAVIA Sync ( Sony )
- HDMI-CEC ( Hitachi )
- Kuro Link ( Pioneer )
- CE-Link and Regza Link ( Toshiba )
- RIHD (Remote Interactive over HDMI) ( Onkyo )
- SimpLink ( LG )
- HDAVI Control, EZ-Sync, and VIERA Link ( Panasonic )
- EasyLink ( Philips )
- NetCommand for HDMI ( Mitsubishi )