HDMI is crap. I used to like it, until my Fios Box stopped talking to my TV. Both are perfectly fine, hardware wise. It was a software update that goofed up the DRM, and now gives me 3 seconds of picture, a pretty green glow, then a black screen. Why can't it just work? Why does the software have to verify compliance? What is the point of a "handshake", other than to cause problems for consumers.
More and more people will start having these types of problems. DRM should never have been included in the HDMI standard.
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Dagwood @ Mar 31st 2008 6:53AM
HDMI is crap. I used to like it, until my Fios Box stopped talking to my TV. Both are perfectly fine, hardware wise. It was a software update that goofed up the DRM, and now gives me 3 seconds of picture, a pretty green glow, then a black screen. Why can't it just work? Why does the software have to verify compliance? What is the point of a "handshake", other than to cause problems for consumers.
More and more people will start having these types of problems. DRM should never have been included in the HDMI standard.