You talked about the folly of Wireless HD. And you mentioned that it's pointless as long as you still have to have a power cable. I agree. And someone mentioned the rats nest behind his TV.
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.
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Brian Bock @ Jan 10th 2008 8:38AM
You talked about the folly of Wireless HD. And you mentioned that it's pointless as long as you still have to have a power cable. I agree. And someone mentioned the rats nest behind his TV.
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.