2011-07-21, 10:23
Okay just to clarify a few things
Firstly, this isn't a US only technology, Pulse-Eight is a UK based company and ships worldwide. So no-one is left out.
ION chips might support CEC, but the boards don't always have the pin wired up. And as far as I can tell, none of the open or closed drivers support CEC, or expose them, so unless someone wants to write driver support they are out of luck.
CEC has been around since 1.0 in fact its the next generation of Av.link which was in SCART sockets that have been around for at least a couple of decades. Not all TVs support all commands, and some have their own custom commands that only the same line of products support.
Our aim is to produce a box that will work with all of these and allow the community to contribute new codes and missing codes for different TVs for the betterment of everyone.
Lastly, CEC works even if the device is turned of (in standby) oh and CEC is an optional part of the HDMI Spec, only requirement is that the pin is wired to allow other devices that do implement CEC to continue to work.
Firstly, this isn't a US only technology, Pulse-Eight is a UK based company and ships worldwide. So no-one is left out.
ION chips might support CEC, but the boards don't always have the pin wired up. And as far as I can tell, none of the open or closed drivers support CEC, or expose them, so unless someone wants to write driver support they are out of luck.
CEC has been around since 1.0 in fact its the next generation of Av.link which was in SCART sockets that have been around for at least a couple of decades. Not all TVs support all commands, and some have their own custom commands that only the same line of products support.
Our aim is to produce a box that will work with all of these and allow the community to contribute new codes and missing codes for different TVs for the betterment of everyone.
Lastly, CEC works even if the device is turned of (in standby) oh and CEC is an optional part of the HDMI Spec, only requirement is that the pin is wired to allow other devices that do implement CEC to continue to work.
