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HDMI does have nice features, like ARC and CEC. (I'd rather use DisplayPort though)
by sliverstorm 11y ago
HDMI does have nice features, like ARC and CEC.
(I'd rather use DisplayPort though)
- pritambaral 11y agoNeither of which require DRM, I'm sure. HDMI causes a lot of problems (and price increases) because of HDCP.
- stordoff 11y 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 11y 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 11y 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 11y agoCEC has given me nothing but pain. Namely inputs switching randomly again and again. I had to disable it to make my TV usable.