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    What's up with ethernet over HDMI?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by nemt, Feb 25, 2011.

  1. nemt

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    HDMI devices can do TCP/IP now? Can they actually be used for internet networking, or is it just to transfer data from a video source to the display?
     
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    xXscionXx Notebook Consultant

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    Second part. HDMI transfers audio and video signals via one cable.
     
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    They are incorporating ethernet 100mbs connection into it.
     
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    Yes, I know what HDMI is. I'm asking about a new feature included in the 1.4 spec.

    That article also isn't very clear. I could browse the internet on any device hooked up to my TV with internet access already - even if I used composite video. What benefit does ethernet over HDMI bring to the table?
     
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    One cable less- that's all.
     
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    ..but it's not one cable less, there isn't something special about internet based a/v content that requires ethernet to transmit from a source to a display

    I have my Dreamcast hooked up to the TV with a VGA cable - I don't need to plug in an ethernet cable to go online with it, nor would I have to if I hooked my PC up to it with an HDMI 1.0 cable.

    EDIT: obviously I'm missing something fundamentally different about what ethernet over HDMI is supposed to do - I can't find any information on what that is though. Are they talking about TVs plugged directly into networking devices without a PC/DVR/Boxee Box/etc in between for online content delivery?
     
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    Video capture possibility? If the tv has ability to send back a signal, through it.
     
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    Its made more for tv's not for computers as much. Surfing the web on your tv through the hdmi slot will save on having to make a ethernet port.
     
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    What are you plugging that HDMI cable into though? I've never seen a modem/router with HDMI ports.
     
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    xXscionXx, Feb 25, 2011
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