On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:18 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:13:41 PDT, Owen DeLong said: >> I expect within my lifetime that multi-gigabit ethernet will become >> commonplace in the household LAN environment and that when that >> becomes reality, localized IP Multicast over multi-gigabit ethernet >> will eventually supplant HDMI as the primary transport for audio/video >> streams between devices (sources such as BD players, DVRs, >> computers, etc. and destinations such as receivers/amps, monitors, >> speaker drivers, etc.). > > The only reason you got HDMI at all was because the content owners managed > to get HDCP included. You won't get a replacement that doesn't do HDCP until > we fix the sorry state of copyright in the US. > > So it's equivalent to asking if we're going to fix copyright within your > lifetime... :) I fully expect them to develop an HDCP-or-equivalent enabled protocol to run over IP Multicast. Do you have any reason you believe that won't happen? Owen