From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 11:18:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F84CA2C for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:18:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1047A8FC0A for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qA6Apw45084480; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 05:51:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 05:51:58 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: Matthias Apitz Subject: Re: FreeBSD && HDMI TV In-Reply-To: <20121106083949.GA1123@tiny.Sisis.de> Message-ID: References: <20121106083949.GA1123@tiny.Sisis.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:18:45 -0000 On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: > The TV has as well a LAN connector, I don't know at the moment for what > this is good for, i.e. what kind of protocol it is expecting on the LAN > connector... A few displays can be controlled over the LAN connector (power on/off, input selection etc.) but in most cases it's solely for use with Netflix and the like. My computer monitor died a few days ago and I had to buy a new one, but I made sure to get one that had a VGA input. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]