This is VERY bad news for custom installers and do-it-yourselfers. By plugging the so-called "analog hole", the studios won't prevent any piracy, but will kill off dozens of companies that can build analog video products like matrix systems, switchers, and the like, but can't develop for HDMI.
Basically, this agreement forces HDMI into every household that wants distributed video...and we all know how well that works.
Erwos, you obviously have very limited experience with HDMI. How do you suggest that someone accomplish an 8x16 system for a sports bar, for example? How do you suggest that someone can listen to lossless audio in their Blu-ray enabled home theater room while someone watches elsewhere on a TV with TV speakers only? Do you have a solution for the re-authentication requirement of HDCP that makes all TVs drop the signal and re-sync whenever a new viewer connects to a source?
HDCP is as buggy as crap on a hot day, and you simply can't do with HDMI what you can with component video in a distributed video system.
Just because monoprice.com has something on their website doesn't mean it works for everybody, or even works at all.
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This is VERY bad news for custom installers and do-it-yourselfers. By plugging the so-called "analog hole", the studios won't prevent any piracy, but will kill off dozens of companies that can build analog video products like matrix systems, switchers, and the like, but can't develop for HDMI.
Basically, this agreement forces HDMI into every household that wants distributed video...and we all know how well that works.
What the heck are you talking about? There are active HDMI matrix switches already out there, and they work just fine with HDCP.
HDMI isn't forced. If the companies wanted to rebel they could develop for DisplayLink.
DisplayLink is royalty free.
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Erwos, you obviously have very limited experience with HDMI. How do you suggest that someone accomplish an 8x16 system for a sports bar, for example? How do you suggest that someone can listen to lossless audio in their Blu-ray enabled home theater room while someone watches elsewhere on a TV with TV speakers only? Do you have a solution for the re-authentication requirement of HDCP that makes all TVs drop the signal and re-sync whenever a new viewer connects to a source?
HDCP is as buggy as crap on a hot day, and you simply can't do with HDMI what you can with component video in a distributed video system.
Just because monoprice.com has something on their website doesn't mean it works for everybody, or even works at all.