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Here's my suggestion to the CE industry. Create a new, open source connector for home AV. It would combine multiple HD video streams, multiple audio streams, and a few common DC voltages that compliant devices can use to power their inner workings. True that you couldn't power a TV or a receiver on this. They would have to have their own power. But you could power PVRs, cable boxes (if they are still required), video switches, game consoles, digital movie players, home automation, and HD disc players from it since they all contain transformers that step down the voltage and convert it to DC anyway, or they use wall warts.

You could accomplish long cable runs and prevent hum and interference by transmitting the video and audio data optically.

They'd need to do it in one plug that is easy to get right, impossible to get wrong, and a hell of lot sturdier than HDMI.

The cable would be able to transmit multiple audio and video signals and devices could be daisy chained together or plugged into hubs like firewire. The upside is that you wouldn't have to worry about what plugs into what. One device would be given (or would take) control of the others.

Downside I suppose is that you'd increase the cost of devices by requiring optical to electronic conversion, but you'd save space, expense, and cooling required a power subsystem.

I don't know. Is this possible? Hairbrained? Dunno. I'm just sick of all the complication of hooking this stuff up and finding the right wire when I want to change something. And I'm running out of plugs.]]>Jan 10th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/09/engadget-hd-podcast-067-01-08-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/09/engadget-hd-podcast-067-01-08-2008/
Love the podcast. One problem though. There is one field of the podcast file that is being left out and it is preventing my podcast aggregator from identifying the latest episode. That field is the "Release Date". I'm not using iTunes. I use ZENcast made by Creative. I don't know if you've heard this problem from anyone else.

I've run into this issue with another podcast. Then all of a sudden their podcasts included the release date and everything was fine. I would love to continue listening to your podcast, however I'm apparently too lazy to download and transfer the file to my player manually.

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

Murat]]>Jan 10th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/09/engadget-hd-podcast-067-01-08-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/09/engadget-hd-podcast-067-01-08-2008/
Believe us when we tell you that we know our Podcast's RSS feed sucks, but unfortunately after 2 years of asking our development team to fix it they have not.

We appreciate you listening, but completely understand if you don't listen because of the feed issue.
Thanks
Ben]]>Jan 10th 2008 12:17PM