HDMI in Every Computer

I’ve been gone, or more accurately my computer has. But thanks to Apple, it’s back, and so am I with a special Tuesday idea giveaway.

For the last three generations of computers, I’ve been using TVs as monitors. Every generation has its own cables. VGA. S-Video. DVI. I thought I had them all, but, with my computer in the shop, I still couldn’t hook up a friend’s laptop to the television. I’ve got a drawer overflowing of wires and converters, and they were all obsolete.

It’s time for computers to commit to a standard video output format, HDMI. It’s small, all the TVs already use it and it outputs audio as well.

From here on, let every new computer ship with an HDMI port.

Until next week,
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Jonathan Rozen