alt Hacker NewsThat's definitely a thing that happened, but it's minimising so much other important work that it's misrepresenting the whole thing.
Do you know how much bandwidth six channels of uncompressed audio needs? Home theaters would be a HUGE hassle without a single cable doing all that work for you.
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zephen • last Friday at 1:36 AM
> Do you know how much bandwidth six channels of uncompressed audio needs?
Yeah.
Half the bandwidth of USB 1.0.
Or, in terms of more A/V kinds of things, about two percent of original firewire.
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ADAT Lightpipe supports up to 8 audio channels at 48 kHz and 24 bits - all using standard off-the-shelf Toslink cables and transceivers. MADI can do significantly more.
Let's not pretend surround sound is a nearly-impossible problem only HDMI could possibly solve.