Just when you thought everyone was getting comfortable with good ol' HDMI in their homes, someone goes and creates another HD standard; only this time, they might actually have a good reason for doing so...
The new standard is called "HDBaseT" (we're not sure how we're ever going to be able to say that 10 times fast) and proposes a new solution using old tech we're all too familiar with by now - carrying all that lovely HD video and audio - over your standard ethernet cable.
Seeing as most ethernet cables can carry more than 1080p data these days, we're not sure why it took so long for the industry to get this idea finalized. With big names like Sony, Samsung, and LG are already on board with HDBaseT, we suppose we'll be soon seeing Cat5E inputs on upcoming 3D televisions and one less output situated on the side of our laptops sometime next year in 2011.
What do you guys think? Is HDBaseT something worth getting excited for?
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Comments (2)
This will not replace HDMI. It has no practical advantage to average home users, and it will confuse the eve rloving crap out of them. What it will do is create a standard to make it easier to do centralized home automation and media serving style setups. Most of us don't have that. There is a reason we don't send power over HDMI. It is a distribution nightmare. It makes sense though when you are talking about setups that will require multi thousand dollar receivers to operate anyways.
My husband wired our house with Cat6 a year ago so I could see that coming in handy for watching video from the desktop in our living room.