What's the Matter with HDMI? — Audioholics Home Theater Reviews and News HDMI, as we've pointed out elsewhere, is a format which was designed primarily to serve the interests of the content-provider industries, not to serve the interests of the consumer. The result is a mess, and in particular, the signal is quite hard to rout HDMI, as we've pointed out elsewhere, is a format which was designed primarily to serve the interests of the content-provider industries, not to serve the interests of the consumer. The result is a mess, and in particular, the signal is quite hard to route and switch, cable assemblies are unnecessarily complicated, and distance runs are chancy. Why is this, and what did the designe By tpsaintin Public bookmarkswith audiocablecomputercooldvigeekhdmihdtvhometheaterinterestingtelevisionvideo