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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Weber" data-source="post: 15333" data-attributes="member: 114">Re: Video input formats to includeNobody to blame for that but ourselves.&nbsp; When the HDMI and HDCP were being developed the pro AV industry apparently decided not to get involved and now we&#039;re stuck with what the consumer side developed.&nbsp; I think the pro AV industry got too used to &#039;high end&#039; consumer products emulating pro products and didn&#039;t expect the consumer side to just go and do something completely different without consulting us.&nbsp; It seems we were wrong and now we&#039;ve gone from pro products somewhat driving the consumer products to the other way around.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.soundforums.net/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Another factor is that HDMI and DisplayPort are smaller and less expensive to incorporate into laptops.&nbsp; When you&#039;re dealing with commodity products it gets difficult to justify the extra space and cost to also incorporate VGA.As far as HDMI versus DVI, HDMI carries audio and CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) information as well as video.&nbsp; And HDMI Ver 1.4 adds an Ethernet connection making it a true one cable solution (digital video, digital audio, control and network) for some consumer electronics.HDMI and DVI-D/I both include HDCP functionality.&nbsp; Both HDCP and the analog sunset exist to deal with preventing high resolution copying, so we can probably blame the content providers more than the electronics industry for those issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brad Weber, post: 15333, member: 114"] Re: Video input formats to include Nobody to blame for that but ourselves. When the HDMI and HDCP were being developed the pro AV industry apparently decided not to get involved and now we're stuck with what the consumer side developed. I think the pro AV industry got too used to 'high end' consumer products emulating pro products and didn't expect the consumer side to just go and do something completely different without consulting us. It seems we were wrong and now we've gone from pro products somewhat driving the consumer products to the other way around. [img]http://www.soundforums.net/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif[/img] Another factor is that HDMI and DisplayPort are smaller and less expensive to incorporate into laptops. When you're dealing with commodity products it gets difficult to justify the extra space and cost to also incorporate VGA. As far as HDMI versus DVI, HDMI carries audio and CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) information as well as video. And HDMI Ver 1.4 adds an Ethernet connection making it a true one cable solution (digital video, digital audio, control and network) for some consumer electronics. HDMI and DVI-D/I both include HDCP functionality. Both HDCP and the analog sunset exist to deal with preventing high resolution copying, so we can probably blame the content providers more than the electronics industry for those issues. [/QUOTE]

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