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>Industry signaling a strong desire.. Is this the same industry that gave us the HDMI "blessing" ? "The headphones, audio cables and the jack adapters are too
by leaveyou 10y ago
>Industry signaling a strong desire..
Is this the same industry that gave us the HDMI "blessing" ?
"The headphones, audio cables and the jack adapters are too cheap.. We can solve that !"
- sliverstorm 10y agoHDMI does have nice features, like ARC and CEC. (I'd rather use DisplayPort though)
- pritambaral 10y agoNeither of which require DRM, I'm sure. HDMI causes a lot of problems (and price increases) because of HDCP.
- stordoff 10y ago> HDMI causes a lot of problems (and price increases) because of HDCP. And the way around it (in the specific case of HDCP) is often to buy cheap, probably non-standards compliant equipment, which isn't a good situation for anyone. I recall reading that the VitaTV had HDCP, yet I hadn't encountered that issue. Turns out the HDMI switcher I was using (the cheapest one I could find on Amazon with two outputs) was just stripping it off.
- pritambaral 10y agoThen you got lucky. If that practice was pervasive, 1) honest people wouldn't face as many issues with HDMI; and 2) the Hollywood DRM-lobby would go crazy on manufacturers
- patrickk 10y agoCEC is really fantastic. For Raspberry Pi media centers connected to a TV, your TV remote just works without any additional setup. Previously, it was a massive pain in the ass to set up key mappings with a bluetooth keyboard, fiddling around with OpenElec config files over SSH until it supported the keyboard. It also means the media centre is non-geek usable.
- donatj 10y agoCEC has given me nothing but pain. Namely inputs switching randomly again and again. I had to disable it to make my TV usable.