Hi-Rez Highway

Just saw an ad. . .

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In Reply to: RE: That's just sad Sh**! posted by Jon L on July 04, 2008 at 14:01:05

. . . (in the latest "Stereophile" I think) for locking HDMI cables. So while HDMI may still have problems, at least those with the integrity of the connection may have been overcome. (I haven't actually seen these cables so I don't know for sure.)

Also interesting was Charles' info about the actual yearly fees for iLink and HDMI. I had heard that when Apple first devised the FireWire standard, they offered it to other (computer) manufacturers for (as well as I remember) $1 per unit. When the other manufacturers balked at this fee (too high!), Apple reduced it to something like 25 cents (or maybe it was 5 cents - I can't remember) per unit. Perhaps Sony's iLink fees were designed to keep out small specialist manufacturers in favor of the bigger conglomerates like themselves? (But why? I wouldn't think Sony competes directly against specialist manufacturers. Maybe they're just trying to get what the market will bear.)

BTW, I also have a Pioneer Elite player and receiver connected via iLink and am very happy with it, compared with the analogue connections I used previously.

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