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Re: Strip HD-audio from HDMI 1.3 and pass through USB or Ethernet or Firewire....

Posted by Charles Hansen on April 6, 2007 at 18:49:58:
<< Does it somehow violate HDCP? >>
Yes. An HDCP compliant source will only transmit to an HDCP compliant sink (receiver). The HDCP license terms prohibit extracting the digital content and sending it around in un-encrypted form.
Plus it cost $15,000 a year for an HDCP license plus another $15,000 a year for an HDMI license. (You need both to make an HDMI compliant device). So don't look for any specialty manufacturers to include HDMI anytime soon -- it's just not economically feasible.
<< This is really starting to piss me off. >>
It's called "marketing" -- planned obsolescence.
Mostly it's just a bunch of BS designed to steal your money. Why do you even want HDMI? It's only an advantage if you have a digital display. But there is no digital display made today that looks as good as a nice CRT set.
If you can live with a 34" widescreen picture, connect a good DVD player via the analog outputs to a Sony XBR-970. It's only $1000 list, and it will *crush* the picture from any digital display. Screw HDMI. Screw DRM. Screw planned obsolescence.