The hype around the Web since the just-launched HDBaseT standard is that "HDMI is dead." Oh, and also DisplayPort. Well, the hype notwitstanding (because the Ethernet crowd is obviously real bullish on HDBaseT), my feeling is, wait and see. After all, wasn't the advent of Light Peak not too long ago supposed to harbinger the death of USB? Does that really seem to be happening?
Re: the HDBaseT hype (and, admittedly, the technology does sound like it could be a game changer), I like some of the comments here on the UK website PC Pro in their article about the subject. Port concerns are a real question (i.e., so will every TV now come standard with an RJ-45 connector? Seems very plausible & even feasible I guess...but that's a lot of TVs) as do power concerns (is the most robust PoE Plus standard really 100% guaranteed to handle the load? I mean, I know what the spec says, and I have no reason to believe things won't work out. But has it been done before? The best laid plans...)
Someone suggested that what HDBaseT really means right now is that the HDMI standards committee will just have to do better. Time will tell.
Regardless of what makes sense from the hardware point of view there remains the approval of the media owners and suppliers. Sony for example has two heads, one for hardware and another for media and software. Just does not make sense to change a system that is working and having a significant barrier to defeating illegal copying. Besides the hardware boys will need a method of transition. What we have now with HDMI, optical, digital (sound) and XVGA and component is bad enough. Tell Joe the plumber he has to scrap his big direct view panel because his receiver died and he’ll go nuts.
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so will every TV now come standard with an RJ-45 connector? Wow, must have been written by someone who has a CompTIA certification. This is just the type of incorrect stuff this outfit teaches people. The actual name of the connector is, and has been since about 2000, called an 8P8C. Like calling any car a Model T and just the reason so many of us that took this cert course at ACC in Littleton, CO didn't bother to take the overpriced test where you are required over and over to give a wrong answer in order to pass. Got a crimper? Take a look at what it says on it. See the 8P8C on it? An RJ-45 is keyed folks and hasn't been typically used for a decade. Check it out. Got a CompTIA certification? I am so very sorry!
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