[mythtv-users] HDMI-CEC ?

Max Hodgson max at mjhodgson.com
Fri Oct 7 15:13:07 UTC 2011


The implementations between manufacturers is slightly different I think.

My PS3 will turn on my LG tv, but it won't change the HDMI input to
the one the PS3 is on. Which is almost complete useless.

On 7 October 2011 14:43, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 7 Oct 2011, at 13:57, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>
>> On 11-10-07 08:48 AM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>>>
>>> That's amazing.
>>
>> Not the word I would use.  Sickening or disgusting is more like it.
>>
>> I don't know if I've ever seen a single industry
>>> standard marketed under so many proprietary-sounding names (hats off
>>> to Hitachi on this one, though).
>>
>> Indeed.  Most likely it's an effort by every manufacturer (except Hitach
>> -- and my hat's off to them too) to make consumers believe that their
>> "equipment linking" technology is proprietary and only works with their
>> own equipment.  Shame on them.
>
> Of course they also "embrace and extend" the standard so that it really only works properly with their own equipment :-(
>
> Isn't CEC the same thing underneath as the old SCART AV link that never really worked properly either?
>
> Andre
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