HDMI to Replace DVI by 2008 in the CE Market?!?!

[feedback]

An analyst for In-Stat explains:
I don't know if this is just this guy's opinion or if he really knows what he is talking about as he is 'just an analyst' not a fortune teller.

What do you guys think?

Check out the link below.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=698

[Leiw]

I believe DVI won't last long either

As soon as HDMI becomes 16bit and is used with Blu-Ray/HD DVD players there won't be any use for it in the TV branch

Same with computers, if you want to watch High Definitions content, you will have to buy a DHCP certified monitor and GFX card, on which you will most likely find a HDMI and a DVI output, and DVI will become pretty much fast obsolete

HDMI ---> Advantages :
1) A lot more bandwith
2) Outputs Video&Audio

Disavandtage :

DHCP (-> some kind of nast protection o_O)

[Doom9]

well.. look at how many PC screens and GFX cards feature HDMI right now... HDMI is just beginning to show up in some TV screens and it generally takes a whole for changes to take hold. Supporting audio isn't necessarily an advantage. I don't want the output of my (HD)DVD player to first go through the receiver and come back to the TV. Same for my PC.. the audio takes a different (and longer path) and it would make no sense to have video and audio in the same cable. Unless you're still stuck using crappy mono or stereo builtin sound in your TV, audio will have to travel another path from the source to the destination than video... and putting HDMI switches into receivers means you can throw away another piece of equipment (with the consequence of having to replace yet another piece of equipment).

[SeeMoreDigital]

Apparently sales of "HD Ready" (ie: with HDMI) TV's have took off like a rocket in the UK, with Dec 2005 sales reaching 110,000 units!

I'm with you Doom9, I don't like idea of sending the audio stream to the TV and then back to my DSS amp.... But I have the suspicion that it wont be long before "blue laser" players encrypt the audio stream with some form of HDCP protection too!


Cheers

[Doom9]

But I have the suspicion that it wont be long before "blue laser" players encrypt the audio stream with some form of HDCP protection too!I think you just figured out the reason why the industry wants HDMI.. to stop "pirates" from recording AC3 via S/PDIF.
"HD Ready"That just means HDCP.. not necessarily HDMI.

[SeeMoreDigital]

That just means HDCP.. not necessarily HDMI.Indeed... but after recently wondering around a few stores selling "HD Ready" HDTV's, the majority now have HDMI connections!

If this trend continues, it wont be long before they are all HDMI only in the UK (and probably mainland Europe too).

The current target market will be viewers of HDTV via DVB-S2 carrying MPEG-4 AVC broadcasts.... Well, at least until the blue laser devices come to fruition.


Cheers

[Revgen]

I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) that a student or prof. at some university was able to decrypt the HDCP protection. He hasn't shown anybody how to do it since this would violate the DMCA.

It appears that this protection isn't exactly unbreakable. It would have to take somebody outside the U.S. to do it.

[Doom9]

well.. there's always feedback123@doom9.net.. there's plenty of countries with copyright laws that still make sense..

[SeeMoreDigital]

Where are the rights for early HDTV consumers when you need them?

http://gear.ign.com/articles/691/691408p1.html


Cheers

[mr.bimble]

HDMI isn't all its cracked up to be. Ive just had to replace my dvd player, and then I bought a plasma. The hdmi connection overides all others when it is used, but it has sound problems. You can't connect to your tv with it and daisy chain connections. Its one to one connection, so if you have hdtv via a sattelite box you have to unplug your dvd player, or vice versa.I dont think that the quality of dvd picture is much improved over composite video. I cant recieve hdtv and dont need or want it, after all its only tv. Watching films on dvd is something else though.