I think you would be surprised how fast development of guides would happen if it were open. TV manufacturers would put nice big lavish guides that take advantage of the screen real estate on their 3000-4000 dollar TVs without any trouble, while having nice, well though out, compact guides on kitchen size 22 inch LCD TVs. No longer will we have to be subjected to SD sized guides on widescreen TVs. And I also imagine that companies will want to take advantage of this ability quite a bit by combining it with the newish HDMI-CEC which every major manufacturer is now touting on their respective systems as Bravia Link, Anynet and a number of other names.
I understand that the signal is different and I would not be opposed to a hardware that requires a mandatorily free cable card type dongle to be inserted or attached to a Firewire/Ethernet/USB that effectively is the decoder/liaison between the wall the device as long as it allows freedom of hardware and freedom of the software on the user end.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I think you would be surprised how fast development of guides would happen if it were open. TV manufacturers would put nice big lavish guides that take advantage of the screen real estate on their 3000-4000 dollar TVs without any trouble, while having nice, well though out, compact guides on kitchen size 22 inch LCD TVs. No longer will we have to be subjected to SD sized guides on widescreen TVs. And I also imagine that companies will want to take advantage of this ability quite a bit by combining it with the newish HDMI-CEC which every major manufacturer is now touting on their respective systems as Bravia Link, Anynet and a number of other names.
I understand that the signal is different and I would not be opposed to a hardware that requires a mandatorily free cable card type dongle to be inserted or attached to a Firewire/Ethernet/USB that effectively is the decoder/liaison between the wall the device as long as it allows freedom of hardware and freedom of the software on the user end.