>>>> - What is HDMI?
>>>  Essentially the HD equivalent of SCART in that in carries both video 
>>> and audio in one cable
>>
>> But it's digital too, right?
>
> Depends, in theory there's nothing stopping you from feeding an analogue 
> source via HDMI.

But just to clarify, what travels along the actual HDMI cable must be 
digital, it is exactly the same as the digital part of a normal PC DVI 
cable*, just with the option of digital audio data too.  Of course as Phil 
said there is nothing to stop you converting some crappy analogue signal to 
digital and pumping it along the HDMI cable.


* OK I know most DVI cables actually have analogue and digital pins+wires, 
but HDMI cables don't

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"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message 
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>> You can get plasmas over 100". I haven't seen an LCD over 50"
>
> http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/10/sharps_108inch.html
>
> I think it costs like $100k and only available in Japan...
>

I've seen a 108" on sale on an australian site, but no where else.

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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:28:04 +0200, "Gail" <gail (at) sql in the wild (dot) co
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>"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message 
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>>> You can get plasmas over 100". I haven't seen an LCD over 50"
>>
>> http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/10/sharps_108inch.html
>>
>> I think it costs like $100k and only available in Japan...
>>
>
>I've seen a 108" on sale on an australian site, but no where else. 

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scott wrote:
> But just to clarify, what travels along the actual HDMI cable must be 
> digital,

More precisely, it's an analog signal that gets interpreted as a digital 
signal at the other end. Hence, the cable needs to preserve enough of the 
analog signal that the digital signal gets there reliably. Which is where 
the quality comes in to it.

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scott wrote:
> 
> In the past, all LCDs were designed with AR and AG coatings to stop
> specular reflections that bugged CRTs so badly.  But a few years ago
> some marketing guru realised that if you took off the AR coating some
> people actually thought it looked "better" because it looked shinier. 
> It didn't matter that you would end up seeing a direct reflection of
> your window or lights in the TV at home, it looked shinier in the shop
> so it sold more units.
> 

Is this why most laptops today have a goddamn mirror-display?

-Aero

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Orchid XP v8 a écrit :
> Darren New wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Yeah, but the "minimum quality" is really, *really* low, except for 
>>> absurdly high bitrates.
>>
>> Error rates also go up very quickly with longer cables, so a 10-meter 
>> cable is going to need to be much higher quality than a 1-meter cable.
> 
> Indeed. But who on earth is going to need a 10-meter HDMI lead? ;-)
> 

A pub owner who doesnt want to have 1 receiver for each of his 20 screens.

An airport manager who want to feed the same aircraft arrivals/departure 
signal (and advertisement, of course!) to all the screens in the airport.

Basically, lots of people who do not necesarily have the same needs as 
Joe Q. Public.

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>> Indeed. But who on earth is going to need a 10-meter HDMI lead? ;-)
> 
> A pub owner who doesnt want to have 1 receiver for each of his 20 screens.
> 
> An airport manager who want to feed the same aircraft arrivals/departure 
> signal (and advertisement, of course!) to all the screens in the airport.
> 
> Basically, lots of people who do not necesarily have the same needs as 
> Joe Q. Public.

And which of these people are going to care if a cable costs them £80? ;-)

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"Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote in message 
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>
> A pub owner who doesnt want to have 1 receiver for each of his 20 screens.
>
> An airport manager who want to feed the same aircraft arrivals/departure 
> signal (and advertisement, of course!) to all the screens in the airport.
>

An office block where there are TVs in the exco lounge and several reception 
rooms, all fed from the same source

Conference halls where the person speaking on stage is recorded and that 
recording fed to several screens

Even a normal person who has their TV on one wall and the receiver/DVD 
player on the other side of the room.

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> And which of these people are going to care if a cable costs them £80? ;-)
>

None probably. But that wasn't the question. You asked who would need a 10m 
HDMI cable.

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>> In the past, all LCDs were designed with AR and AG coatings to stop
>> specular reflections that bugged CRTs so badly.  But a few years ago
>> some marketing guru realised that if you took off the AR coating some
>> people actually thought it looked "better" because it looked shinier.
>> It didn't matter that you would end up seeing a direct reflection of
>> your window or lights in the TV at home, it looked shinier in the shop
>> so it sold more units.
>
> Is this why most laptops today have a goddamn mirror-display?

Yep, it must sell more units and appeal to enough people, because it's 
definitely getting more popular.  See, Engineers come up with a good 
solution, then the marketing people destroy all the hard work by saying 
"actually we think people like the old shiny reflective screens better, 
can't you make them like that". :-)  Shiny things sell!

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