HDMI 2.1 standardization is a mess.  I been in a market for a new receiver lately and it even worse then figuring out what on a monitor

Let take something like the Onkyo tx-rz50

It have 3 40gbs HDMI 2.1 ports and 3 24gbs HDMI 2.1 ports.  48gbs at the moment do not exist in the receiver world.  If you look at the product listing, websites etc there is no indication that all 6 HDMI ports are not identical.  The only place you can tell is on a single page a couple hundred pages into the manual where it list what supported on each HDMI port.  It still don't list speed but you can guess by what feature set they allow.

Then you got Yamaha who low ends have 24gbs that originally did not even work right and required a board swap but there high end receivers A4A and higher have all 40gbs HDMI ports in theory but not enabled at moment because they not release a firmware update to enable hdmi 2.1 features that require that much bandwidth.  The date on that firmware update been delayed multiple times so who knows when it come out.

It not even completely the manufactures fault because 4 years after the spec release the HDMI Forum still not release Compliance Test specifications for all the features....

I ended up giving up and bought something that can take earc from tv and convert it to hdmi audio so I can run audio through my old receiver that don't have earc only regular arc which not good enough for my sound setup and run video directly into the TV 4 hdmi 2.1 ports that actually support everything including earc to send to converter.  I revisit receivers again in 2023.  That converter was also not cheap at $188 but rather spend that then deal with a 2k receiver that I don't even know will do everything I need.

Toyota thinks THEY own your car.

Not related to PC per say but it's quite insane none the less. The summary is that Toyota cars have this feature where you can remote start the car however it requires you to pay a subscription in order to use it. Now there are other car brands that require a subscription to use a remote start function but the key difference is that with other brands, you generally have to install an app onto your phone and it talks to their servers which then talks to your car and starts it up. With Toyota, the remote start only talks to your car. So the subscription service for this function makes no sense because companies like Honda have the very same function that is included with the purchase.

Next thing we know, Toyota's gonna be pulling this shit off when your sub expires mid-trip:

I had a feeling this was going to happen though. For some years now we've had subscription movie streaming, and for years we've had subscription MMO's and other services (like Gamepass and console online services) for some time, so I guess the other industries of the world are like "why don't we do that for all our shit?". 

World is gonna get bleak if everyone in every other industry decides they want to turn everything into a sub service model, where we don't own everything and constantly have to pay a fee, or it gets taken away from us/become utterly useless.

Yea exactly. It's quite the shame cause not only are the car subscriptions BS cause the base price is the same, you are just adding a subscription on top but also that cars are a necessity these days and you can't live without one. Who knows what's next.

HDMI 2.1 standardization is a mess.  I been in a market for a new receiver lately and it even worse then figuring out what on a monitor

Let take something like the Onkyo tx-rz50

It have 3 40gbs HDMI 2.1 ports and 3 24gbs HDMI 2.1 ports.  48gbs at the moment do not exist in the receiver world.  If you look at the product listing, websites etc there is no indication that all 6 HDMI ports are not identical.  The only place you can tell is on a single page a couple hundred pages into the manual where it list what supported on each HDMI port.  It still don't list speed but you can guess by what feature set they allow.

Then you got Yamaha who low ends have 24gbs that originally did not even work right and required a board swap but there high end receivers A4A and higher have all 40gbs HDMI ports in theory but not enabled at moment because they not release a firmware update to enable hdmi 2.1 features that require that much bandwidth.  The date on that firmware update been delayed multiple times so who knows when it come out.

It not even completely the manufactures fault because 4 years after the spec release the HDMI Forum still not release Compliance Test specifications for all the features....

I ended up giving up and bought something that can take earc from tv and convert it to hdmi audio so I can run audio through my old receiver that don't have earc only regular arc which not good enough for my sound setup and run video directly into the TV 4 hdmi 2.1 ports that actually support everything including earc to send to converter.  I revisit receivers again in 2023.  That converter was also not cheap at $188 but rather spend that then deal with a 2k receiver that I don't even know will do everything I need.

Yeah, I'm glad I didn't wait for HDMI2.1 receivers but just went with one supporting eARC when I bought my LG C9 two years ago.

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