HDMI engineering
2023-03-25 00:28:21.278798+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
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@th Everything about HDMI makes more sense once you understand it as first a *restraint*, and only second as a means of moving images from point A to point B.
HDMI's mission is, "Under no circumstances display something unpermitted; all other considerations secondary; crew expendable."
The EDID thing probably falls out of that on the basis of: the kind of people who would willingly work on the design of such a system are terrible engineers, technically and ethically compromised.