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3D HDMI Specification Is Set Free
An anonymous reader writes "The licenser of the HDMI specification has announced the intent to 'secure the application of 3D' by making the 3D portion of the HDMI 1.4 Specification available for public download, as well as extracts from the upcoming HDMI 1.4a. While the spec includes a 3D component, apparently not everyone has decided to sign up to adopt it. Given the developments happening in DisplayPort v1.2, the next year in displays looks like it will be an interesting one."
People are just now using HDMI. No one is moving anytime soon.
2011 will be the year of DisplayPort on the desktop!
Sure you can download part of the spec. But it has a restrictive license (and only valid 1 year, after that it will self destruct), and it is actually quite useless without the rest of the HDMI spec.
Very nice of them to allow us to read the spec. Now what about the patents? the rest of the HDMI spec on which this piece depends?
If you can't implement the standard, what good will it do you to be able to read it?
Slashdot editing is so inconsistent. Is that set free as in "turned loose"? Or set free as in "nobody owns one"?
Breakfast served all day!
not 3D. You insensitive clods.
You'll be able to have a massive nerdgasm imagining owning your your very Blu-ray copy of Avatar as you read it.
They won't release the 3D version right away of course. Oh no... First it will be the 2D theatrical version, then the 2D extended version, then the 3D theatrical version, then the 3D extended version ...the 3D director's cut where Jake and Neytiri plug their hair together in the love scene {ooooh!} and *finally* the R-rated 3D extended director's cut with topless Na'vi. All versions will also be sold as boxed sets with collectible blue plastic dolls.
No sig today...
between DLNA, HDMI and the 3d crazy that's comming i'm predicting lots of ripped off people. consumer electronics in 2010 is going to be a mine field.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
The document has an EULA. While that is bad enough on its own, in it you find this gem: "The term of this Agreement is one year. Agent in its sole discretion may terminate or extend this Agreement at any time and without prior notice. Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, You shall immediately destroy and cease all use of the Specification Portion and all materials and information related to the Specification Portion." To add insult to injury, they also slap an indemnification clause to the document's EULA.
So, you agree to not distribute it and to destroy the document after one year. If they are sued for whatever reason, and they can blame it on you, you agree to cover all their expenses. Yay for openness!
you missed the part where all those versions end up on bit torrent, and the MPAA complain the billions it made out of the avatar franchise isn't enough to feed the starving actors.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Huh? When did Lucas acquire the HDMI patents?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Despite the success of Avatar, this may be more important for gaming than Hollywood, or? Didn't gaming bypass Hollywood in turnover some time ago?
Just to let you know you made the Stonehenge measurement mistake, but big instead of small. :)
...the 3D director's cut where Jake and Neytiri plug their hair together in the love scene {ooooh!}
Ugh, then what the hell were they actually doing with those animals? Epic mount fail...
Well yes, but for the names who got up fronts, the actors will starve. Read about the Studios vs. the unions at some point.
Finally a chance for the porn industry to drive innovation, they could specify one connector to go into multiple ports... maybe call it backwards compatible.... but that might be a name for a new position.
no cable or sat box has Displayport anyway as well
Have you seen how much bestbuy charges for a HDMI cable? Never mind the nonsense of selling Monster Cable HDMI cables to get the "best picture".(Never mind that a $5 cable from monoprice has the same picture.) I can't imagine how much more ripping off there's going to be.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
Am I the only geek on the planet who checks for multiple inputs before buying a TV? While I realize that video- and audio- philes will probably disagree with me, I'd say that the TV is the best device to act as the central hub for 99% of consumers out there. It's simple and straightforward for them to figure out where to keep plugging stuff into. Why would anyone ever buy a TV with only one (type of) input?
For example, I recently replaced my 10 year old Sony WEGA with a 55" Samsung LCD (half price off a Best Buy floor display). My old Sony had S-video, 3 or 4 sets of composite inputs, and a cable ready jack. I ended up with DVI, VGA, composite, component, S-Video, USB, Ethernet, cable in, OTA, and HDMI options on the back of my set. I've got a MythTV box, a DVD player, DishTV, an OTA antenna, and a WII plugged into this thing. I still have 4 or 5 ports open in case I really want to go hog wild. :)
... and I got a 22" monitor, though it was intended for a VP I think, but I asked for a monitor right after he left.
I just want displayport implementations in laptops to transfer audio as well? Even the current Lenovo W500 laptop, which comes with a displayport, does not transfer audio over it. Even if you buy the bluray option for the laptop. It just pisses me off that there's no way to get high quality audio out of this laptop. Even lenovo admits this.
I'm just sick of these ever evolving home theater standards. There was a time when most home receivers didn't support DTS and dolby digital and so if you had a DVD which was only encoded in one, and your receiver didn't support it, you were out of luck.
Would that be 10 foot tall blue plastic SEX dolls?
All TVs I've seen got multiple inputs. We recently bought a cheap one and it had 4 HDMI, 2 SCART, RGB, Svideo, USB, a couple of ports I don't know what is, and - of course - the port we actually use: cable in.
The 90's called. They want there 2D cables back.
I'm tired of this shit. It's a fucking cable. Get the fuck over it and make it open. You are fucking seriously fucked if you think I give a fuck about HDMI, HDMI 3D HDTV or any other fucking bullshit DRMd fuck-tech.
We're done with this fucking shit, DO YOU UNDERSTAND????
How are they going to display the 3D data?
Or is it a typo, and they meant stereo 2D?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
One of the first things I do is try to save money by buying a TV with fewer input jacks because I expect my receiver to switch audio and video for me. People who actually use their TV speakers for sound can ignore this comment of course.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
I guess this is proof that Win7 is a bit more than Vista SP2.
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the 3D director's cut where Jake and Neytiri plug their hair together in the love scene {ooooh!}
We jacked, straight across. ....
Ordinarily I get the raw material in a studio situation, filtered through several million dollars' worth of baffles, and I don't even have to see the artist. The stuff we get out to the consumer, you see, has been structured, balanced, turned into art. There are still people naive enough to assume that they'll actually enjoy jacking straight across with someone they love. I think most teenagers try it, once. Certainly it's easy enough to do; Radio Shack will sell you the box and the trodes and the cables. But me, I'd never done it. And now that I think about it, I'm not so sure I can explain why. Or that I even want to try.
I do know why I did it with Lise, sat down beside her on my Mexican futon and snapped the optic lead into the socket on the spine, the smooth dorsal ridge, of the exoskeleton. It was high up, at the base of her neck, hidden by her dark hair.
William Gibson, "The Winter Market", 1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_Market
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/burning_chrome.shtml#market
Best cyberpunk short story ever? It might just be.
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
Why cant everyone from the computer camp, the home entertainment camp and elsewhere come together and create one unified set of next generation display standards for everything that both the CE guys and the computer guys could support?
What makes DVI and Display Port and other "computer" technologies better than HDMI for computer use?
I'm a A/V wizard (audiophile has such "another one born every minute" connotations) and I totally agree.. for the average consumer, the TV makes a great hub. And while the manufacturers do seem to be cutting down on the support for ports in monitors, I have seen no such evidence of this happening in full televisions.
The one thing I do miss is an audio chain output from the TV. Ok, my current Samsung has a Sony/Philips optical output, but that's just silly on a TV with HDMI inputs -- I need PCMx8 audio chain output. Years and years back, I had one of the first televisions designed to be used with external amplification, from Techniques (Panasonic's slightly higher-end audio division). This had a full audio chain output, so the TV could remain the video switching hub if you wanted it to be so. In most systems not using the TV speakers, the amplifier has to be the switching hub, which is confusing to consumers. And easily prevented.
But aside from that, the trend is clearly for more ports on televisions.
-Dave Haynie
When I was shopping for a new TV a couple years ago I didn't care how many inputs it had. I made sure it had a HDMI input. Then I spent time making sure my AV Receiver had all the inputs I needed and then some extras. A TV should not be the central control point in a decent home theater setup.
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