| reply to Jehu
Re: Better then nothin MS has previously said that an HDMI cable would eventually be available but that there wasn't enough demand to warrant it right now.
Personally I believe it's physically possible but they're not being entirely honest on why they haven't done it yet - licensing HDMI means implementing HDCP (encryption) support, and without a built-in HDMI port this data exchange would probably have to be implemented in the cable itself instead of in the 360 hardware. That would probably mean a surcharge on each cable and possibly some implementation nightmares for them. On the other hand, their AV out port is completely proprietary and HDMI has been around for a while, so it's possible that the hardware is already there - they certainly won't say - or that the key exchange could be implemented in software.
Info on HDCP here: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Bandw···otection |
