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Apple Preparing to Add HDMI to Macs?

mosx said:
HDMI has also been in computer displays, PC desktops, and PC notebooks as standard features for years now too.

HDMI is everywhere.
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I'm not sure about your definition of "standard" and "everywhere" but I've got 3 laptops (HP, Toshiba and Apple) and there isn't a HDMI port to be found.
 
NoSmokingBandit said:
I like your post. People can geek out of HDMI was meant for XX purpose but Display Port is for YY purpose for days on end, but all that matters is that the customer is able to enjoy his/her laptop how they want. You just want to plug your laptop into your tv with one cable, and thats a perfectly reasonable request. I'm sure you dont give a flying crap what the connector is called or who designed it or what shape it is, you just want to connect everything with one cable and be done, right?
I dont get why this is so hard for some people in this thread to understand.
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So you would be perfectly happy with a single DVI to HDMI cable that provided audio and video to your home theater system?

Those are available. The problem is that Apple doesn't yet support audio through the displayport. If they did, the cable that I described would work fine. It's about $10.

What makes you think that Apple would provide an HDMI port on the next mac mini, but not Displayport audio?
 
Chappers said:
I'm not sure about your definition of "standard" and "everywhere" but I've got 3 laptops (HP, Toshiba and Apple) and there isn't a HDMI port to be found.
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I don't know about consumer laptops, as I don't support those, don't advocate buying them, nor would I ever own one, but the business laptops from HP seem to be migrating away from HDMI.

Previous models like the 8730w still had HDMI.

While newer models, such as the 8440w and 8540p use DisplayPort.

Dell business laptops seem to mostly use VGA still, or in the case of their workstation line, DVI and VGA.

Lenovo Thinkpads, still the best Windows business laptops out there, use primarily DisplayPort or DisplayPort plus VGA. I'm referring to the R series and T series.

So while HDMI is out there, it's usually found on consumer drivel that'll break before the warranty is out, while serious business machines that are depended upon for making money use DisplayPort. I certainly wouldn't consider HDMI being "everywhere".
 
Let's see...

...Apple strategically leverage that big ol' cash horde to purchase Elgato, integrate HDMI into mini, and release the mother of all DVRs with AppleTV software that allows me to purchase/rent content from iTunes.

*THAT* would be the ultimate scenario for me. I'd buy one for each TV in my house, freeing me from the cable universe.

Regarding *this* rumor, maybe someone at Apple hacked together a mini-based HTPC for Jobs. All the stars are aligned for it, IMHO, and there are no fully-elegant solutions in the marketplace.
 
satcomer said:
Well as of the Intel announcement of Light Peak and estata looks like yesterdays stopgap for externals. I want Light Peak ASAP.
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I agree. I've got two MBP's now, and when I replace them in a few years, I want them to have Lightpeak, not eSATA or USB3. Lightpeak scales way, way higher and has the potential to make a lot of other interconnect tech obsolete. Should be cool if it's implemented properly.
 
Mcgargle said:
HDMI was designed for use with televisions. Recently it's been tweaked to make it suitable for home cinema. Whether it will be successful there remains to be seen, because that market's so new.
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Tweaked for home cinema? What are you talking about. HDMI was deisgned with the intention of using it for home cinema and related devices. That's why it passes uncompressed audio formats and signals that no television can or will use. Remains to be seen if it will be succesful? It's a standard for the home theater market and has been for years now. Every consumer entertainment device ships with HDMI. It's not new in any sense of the word.

HDMI was created for two reasons. To simplify the connection between devices and to protect the content of those devices. That scope is far beyond television displays.

The reason you haven't heard the term HTPC is because you are on a Mac forum and Apple have been consciously avoiding the HTPC market to drive traffic to iTunes and it's revenue generation. You only have to move one step to the left and look at the wider market for personal computing and HTPC is widely known and used. That's why Windows 7 ships with the software for it out of the box.

It's also why the Mini needs HDMI. One of it's major attractions is that of a using it as a HTPC. If it had one I'd have bought one, wiped the drive, installed Windows Media Center and hooked it up to my receiver. So would a lot of people. Right now that market is being served by Dell because they saw the useful form factor of the mini and what it was being used for and released their own device - with HDMI and in black to sit on entertainment stands.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/corp/desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&s=corp

Apple choose to avoid this market just to be obstinate. There are a large number of people who would snap up a black HDMI mini who don't even like the Mac OS, but Apple choose not to give an option on a product that people want in favor of trying to push them to something they don't - iTunes sales and rentals.

Reversing that decision would gain them some new fans and more sales and make the Mini into something genuinely useful instead of the baby brother of the Cube.
 
HIGH Definition MULTI-MEDIA Interface ;)

Apple should have had HDMI on there very first Mini.

IMHO ! :D

The Mini is a computer , of course , however with the inclusion of HDMI it can be so much more.

Later ! :)

Gary 
 
As soon as the mini's get HDMI, I am all over it. Need to be able to output hidef audio, once it can do thats, its a perfect home theatre system. Now if it had blu-ray and usb3.0 that would be perfect.

But its apple. So i'll settle for HDMI
 
I had thought about getting the :apple: t.v. but, thought it was a waste in my opinion. I hope they do start putting HDMI on Mac's. I got one of my Mac Mini's converted into a media center via DVI to HDMI to my 52" SAMSUNG. I mean, how many of us have our Mac's connected to a external HD T.V./Monitor anyways? :D
 
Now that the new MBP 13" have been shown to use the MCP89 chipset, this rumor seems a bit more reliable.

Hopefully the new HDMI Mac mini's are coming soon...
 
Jacquesass said:
Now that the new MBP 13" have been shown to use the MCP89 chipset, this rumor seems a bit more reliable.

Hopefully the new HDMI Mac mini's are coming soon...
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I'm still in doubt if Nehalem and 320M will be inside the next Mac Mini.

I sincerely hope it does.
 
Its crazy to see some people defend Apple not including HDMI.

Its fine if you want to say "you know, its not needed" but to pretend people wouldn't use it is just nuts.
 
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