Joel

HDMI, what a format, what a cord.

Now, this may seem like a nerdy thing to be discussing but I intend to consider its implications as an overall advancement in sociological philosophy, as well as its nerdular facets, so don't worry.

Firstly, visually, it's awesome. I mean, 1080 progressively scanned vertical pixels is a lot of pixels.

Audio is also a great thing to be firing, at high quality, into your theatre set-up.

Both video AND audio at the same time? Now, that's just impressive.

Then you have the ever-increasing versions of HDMI: 1.2, 1.3, 1.3b, 1.4, 1.4b etc. One of the coolest introductions during these version revisions was Deep Colour, which supports billions, as opposed to millions, of colours and just sounds cool. I mean Deeeep colour, it's pretty sweet; the idea that you have the standard colours on your screen and then you can have a deeper, more thorough, embedded form of colour coexisting. Then with the even more recent versions you have things like network connectivity (I think) and generally a massive amount of future-proofing.

But, most importantly, the HDMI cable represents society's move towards simplicity in advancement. Rather than more, bigger, grander, being better; less is finally more. With the adoption of the High Definition Media Interface, setting up your T.V., Blu-ray player, PVR, High Def. Tuner etc. is finally a one-cord, one-stop-shop, one action process (in theory) and it at least shows that we're trying. Trying to make things in life simpler and easier. I think it may also be indicative of our evolving approach to sustainability and environmental friendliness. In short, good times for all,

Long live HDMI.