> What you want is a digital video standard that simply pushes an A/V stream over the wire and negotiates the acceptable resolution on the fly. I think even th

> What you want is a digital video standard that simply pushes an A/V stream over the wire and negotiates the acceptable resolution on the fly. I think even that is more than it should be. I had made up my own kind of video connection (which is not implemented yet), which only has video (the audio is a separate cable, with balanced analog audio, although the standard arrangement of the connectors is supposed to be defined so that you can clip them together when wanted and unclip them if you want to move them separately), and does not negotiate the resolution (for several reasons). > Last time I plugged in an HDMI source and the darn "smart" television showed the image for 0.5 seconds before displaying a menu that asks me to press a button on the remote to show the image. At least a part of that is a problem with the smart TV (which has many other problems, too) rather than with HDMI itself, although HDMI also has many problems. SDI is better in some ways, but it is not good enough either, I think.