You hit the nail on the head. Back in 90s we could connect any audio/video device to any other device, because manufacturers agreed on basic analog signals. Now

You hit the nail on the head. Back in 90s we could connect any audio/video device to any other device, because manufacturers agreed on basic analog signals. Now, everything is "smart" and isolated. Is it too much to ask to be able to route audio/video/other signals from sources to sinks regardless device boundaries? It's not helping that big companies like Amazon want to establish themselves as _the_ hub for IoT.