If you find UTP and the 100 m figure familiar, so do I.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10GBASE-T
It doesn' really look like a consumer standard that should replace HDMI for home use, despite their claiming otherwise, but rather an alternative to all those component analog
video splitters/repeaters/concentrators which they use in the stores to showcase the TVs, and a cheaper alternative to similar optic fiber HD-SDI conversion solutions. Overall, it's more like installation-oriented professional standard which most likely uses much of
10GBase-T internally and will most certainly come with proprietary rack-mount concentrators/routers that will convert HDMI/USB/whatever signals at a crazy price, because
10G Ethernet is not exacly a low cost solution
at US $500-1000 per cable right now. Of course they would like to sell it to home users, but what home user needs 100 m of cable length for $500 worth of equipment?
Note that the founders of the consortium include Sony Pictures Entertainment, not Sony Electronics, and LG Electronics and Samsung are also members in competing consortiums such as
DiiVA,
WirelessHD,
WHDI, and probably others. From Wikipedia references,
HDBaseT was first announced in December 2008 as a development by the Israeli firm named
Valens Semiconductor, and it didn't catch much attention back then. AFAIK, analog component and HDMI/DVI extenders for both optical fiber and Category 5 twisted pair which use proprietary protocols
are known for quite a long time.
Jadentheman wrote:Dimitry what do you think of this especially since you are a big proponent of Displayport
I'm a proponent of everything that is better than HDMI in regard to stereo 3D gaming on the PC, so I'm as much a proponent of dual-link DVI.
