Another Scott Adams business idea: Home servers

Post by wmf » Fri, May 15, 2009, 7:29 PM UTC

cmos wrote: post #19

sachinag wrote: post #17

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I get the argument against HDMI, but to insinuate that "it's all one cable" is just marketing speak is crazy. It's a legitimate and useful feature benefit - it reduces clutter and the fewer component types there are on a device, the more ports it can support. At this point, the best differentiator of most sub $3,000 HDTVs is how many HDMI ports it has and where they're located on the device.

I wouldn't dismiss the advantages to putting audio, video and lightweight control on one cable. It does help to reduce confusion and clutter. My issue is that the goal of HDMI wasn't moving audio and video to one cable. The goal was to add encryption so that it becomes illegal to try to record off it. (whereas it's perfectly legal to record unencrypted analog + digital signals for personal use) The selling point to t…

Post by Periodic » Fri, May 15, 2009, 10:34 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #21

cmos wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't dismiss the advantages to putting audio, video and lightweight control on one cable. It does help to reduce confusion and clutter. My issue is that the goal of HDMI wasn't moving audio and video to one cable. The goal was to add encryption so that it becomes illegal to try to record off it. (whereas it's perfectly legal to record unencrypted analog + digital signals for personal use) The selling point to t…

Realistically, I'm not sure recording uncompressed HD video is a good idea anyway. Given that the video probably arrived in some compressed format, you should record/copy that , not decompress it and record/recompress it.