[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:56:24AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>Dis-satisfaction with the business aspects
>of HDMI was what led to the creation of displayport (although it may be
>too late for display port to kick out HDMI).

Maybe not. Look at CDMA cell phones. They all used chips from QUALCOM.
At least here they performed so badly that the one carrier which had
exclusive us of them gave up and went to GSM (which is TDMA).

In the end it all depends upon how the $25 DVD player manufacturers deal
with it. If they have to pay $5 for a chipset and another $5 for a license
to use the software, they won't. 

IMHO the days of the US setting technological standards are on gone. Japan
may be dependent upon the US market enough to care, but China and India won't. 
They'll use whatever they can get for free (or close to it) and make their
own when they can't.

So if HDMI isn't cheap enough for them, they will come up with something that
is. When you walk into a high end store and see a Sony or Toshiba, it will
have HDMI. If you go into Wal-Mart and see one made by the "Long March 
Video Disk Player and Hoisin Sauce Company", it will have the cheap interface.

LG and Samsung will probably have both.

And to be blunt, it probably will be developed here.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM