{"id":70,"date":"2009-08-30T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T20:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lschofield.net\/technical\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-08-30T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T20:53:57","slug":"just-say-no-to-hdmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/just-say-no-to-hdmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say &#8220;No&#8221; to HDMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_82\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_1550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-82\" title=\"IMG_1550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_1550-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1550\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mass of cables.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The little weekend project last week was in the pile of electronics we now call a &#8220;TV&#8221;.\u00a0 Tivo has replaced the need for the VCR.\u00a0 iPod has replaced the need for the jukebox.\u00a0 The new TV has aboiut 5 signal inputs, so running everything to the receiver first seemed silly.\u00a0 It seemed like time to recable everything after removing the now obsolete components.\u00a0 And, those HDMI cables replace about 5 other cables in the wiring scheme (3 video, 2 audio) so I thought I&#8217;d give them a try.<\/p>\n<p>HDMI cables were a big waste of time.\u00a0 While the concept is good, the problem is the HDMI interface also includes some kind of digital handshaking between the components connected in an effort to prevent copying of content illegally.\u00a0 While I have no need to copy illegally (plus, it&#8217;s illegal), I ran into some kind of problem with this digital rights management handshaking which shut down Tivo.\u00a0 There are no tools on either the TV or the Tivo box to monitor or control the HDMI channels &#8211; if the handshaking fails it disables them.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I dumped the HDMI cables and used the component video and stero audio.\u00a0 The picture and sound are just as good so it isn&#8217;t worth trying to debug the digital channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little weekend project last week was in the pile of electronics we now call a &#8220;TV&#8221;.\u00a0 Tivo has replaced the need for the VCR.\u00a0 iPod has replaced the need for the jukebox.\u00a0 The new TV has aboiut 5 signal inputs, so running everything to the receiver first seemed silly.\u00a0 It seemed like time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[48,96,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}