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zephenlast Friday at 1:36 AM1 replyview on HN

> 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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samplattlast Sunday at 11:11 AM

Correct! Now put that USB cable _inside_ a DVI cable, magically solve all the buffering problems that plagued the industry for several decades, slap on some DRM over the top, and you'll have HDMI 1.0 :-D

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