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This really bothers me. Closed standards locked behind a licensing fee may as well not be standards at all, in my opinion.
I don't understand why any hardware uses HDMI anymore anyway, what does it have that displayport doesn't?
CEC (technically I think displayport could support it, but generally isn't implemented) and ethernet up to 100Mbps.
Almost nothing uses ethernet over HDMI to my knowledge.
This is the first time I heard of Ethernet over HDMI and I can't tell if you're joking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi_hec
No. Network over HDMI.
Nobody implements it, but its part of the standard
Nope, afraid not.