HDMI, thy end is near: Qualcomm's Wilocity gobble will let mobes, tabs beam 4K vid to TVs

Not so fast...

HDMI dead? Is it worth pointing out that monitors and graphics cards are *still* being made with VGA ports?

“HDMI, thy end is near”

By the sacré culot of the Marquis de Favras! — it’s “HDMI, thine end is near”.

On the subject of HDMI...

A bit OT so apologies...

I run an external monitor from a laptop connected through the HDMI port and I get regular "black screens" as I call them where the monitor goes completely blank for a second or two then the image returns. I can go hours without it happening then it might happen three or four times in the space of a few minutes. It's very annoying particularly when watching video.

This doesn't happen when the same monitor is connected through VGA but I'm limited on resolution then of course.

It's not a power-thing i.e. the monitor isn't going to standby and back or some such.

A quick Google suggests this isn't that uncommon but people usually get told it's a dodgy driver or card etc but the problem never seems to get resolved.

I'm of a mind that it might be the DRM related hand-shaking between the monitor and lappy (i.e this fails for some reason and the signal is cut) but I doubt there's a fix for that.

Also if the laptop goes to sleep it takes ages for the monitor to respond after it wakes up again, not so on VGA again.

Any experts in Register land that might have a solution or at least a handle on what the issue is?

Both the lappy and monitor are Acer btw (cue the never buy acer again.....talk)

Hi I think that Qualcomm did with 3G; Verizon and Sprint had the lowest speeds and Qualcomm never did offer a good 4G that would be considered a standard.

News at 10

Prevalent radio SOC manufacturer recommends to stick head in the microwave and disengage brain. More radio noise good, brain bad. News at 10.

No thanks, I will stick with cables.

Huh ?

Standing back and looking at this:

1> Use more electricity to generate/receive RF

2> To transfer data at a maximum of 7Gbit/sec

3> Over a maximum range of 10 meters.

4> I'm sure that the interference will be dire, "No dear, don't do the vacuuming now, you know how the TV goes all freaky when you do"

Instead of using one cable and less electricity ? Using more electricity is fine, but when you scale this by 100 million to 10 billion TV's every watt/hour wasted makes a difference. It is not like the stupid encryption in HDCP is not wasting enough already.

Still if movies are transferred across this you can bet your last dollar that the security will be better than military spec, but this probably is not very good these days anyhow.

There will be one thing that matters, and one thing alone - encryption.

The success of this technology will depend on if it gets the appropriate backing by movie studios.

Sad, but true.

Why?

The question that I don't see an answer to is: why?

Why do we need to move data between devices faster than the devices can handle it?

I can't see it being used in the data centre because of lack of sufficient individual channels and I have yet to find a home use that requires that speed of data transfer/

At the moment this is very much a solution looking for a problem to attach itself to.

HDMI dead?

That will be a shame: I only bought my very first flat-screen TV, with lots of HDMI ports on, only last month. I'm still using the Scart socket for the video though!

Where's the 'Luddite' icon..?

I can't wait

I want a desk with wireless power built in meaning I only need one power cable plugged in to the table and this will power both my monitors, laptop, phone etc and with this wireless display there will be no need to have extra cables for each screen. Just pick what monitor / TV you want to send the output of your phone / laptop to and it receives it. Couple this with wireless keyboards, mice, wifi etc you have a very uncluttered flexible and mobile environment. No more messing around plugging things in and out sounds great.

Good riddance HDMI

I'm tired of dodgy cables that can't even show a PS3 home screen with half-second blackouts every 30 secs. Anything that won't even use cables should be great, provided it works at all. I went through a hand full of cables before finding one that works. I won't pay £50 on the original cable, or 'monster' cables.

4k should be worse. Why don't we use ethernet CAT6 cables at once, and be done with it? It is shown to work in Gbps range (er, 200Mbps will do too), why can't it be used to broadcast raw 4k video? It could even detect wrong plugging, stating "this monitor is connected incorrectly to a router, review your connection" sorta message. Or just including the DRM-out warning that will prevent you to play encrypted stuff, who cares.

TL; DR why did we have to put up with another cable standard, when we could use CAT6 cables and RJ45 connectors? HDMI is a complete sham.

Not So Fast

Watching a video at a distance where, without turning my head I can see the whole screen, the good old trusty 55" Full-HD TV is as good as one can get, You cannot make out the pixels and that is equivalent to the retina display of Apple's products. If my 55" is a 4K display, and I still view it at the same distance as before, would it make any difference? If I have an iPad, which has a retina display that displays brilliantly a foot from my face, I should buy the newest 4K TV so that I can transmit via WiGig to it a few feet away, and watch it on the TV at a distance that still cover the same angle of view visually? And possibly get warmed up by the intense radiation spewing non-stop from mobile device, just so that I could disconnect the HDMI cable and be smug about it? In today's context, nobody but nobody is so ignorant as to do up a home without putting in the basic wiring - cat 5/6 utp from central point to all rooms/levels with provisions for bridges, hubs and access points; fiber optic cable across areas prone to electromagnetic interference, etc. Then at least those wired points will not suffer any degradation in speed when compared to wireless relays.