Correct, I just thought it explained HDCP for the layperson
to receive HDMI, the TV just receives each frame, frame by frame, line by line, and draws it on the screen. pretty much just like VGA did in analog, but in digital.
HDMI video is not even run length compressed, its just raw data.
Audio gets compression, but thats a slight bandwidth saving.
There is zero provision for any smart instructions, there is no way to say “treat this box as a texture and render it as the skin of a sphere” like the openGL or directX GPU does..
To a physicist or a serious engineer, the words ‘power’ and ‘energy’ have precise definitions. The amount is a number that comes from and goes into mathematical formulas. The terms also find thier way into marketing hype. There, it sounds cool but does not really mean anything. When you see things like video graphics powered by company A, it’s the hype definition. There is a somewhat grey area between the two where power can mean processor data throughput. That data can be merely copied from one place to another, or it can be manipulated in some way as it goes by.
Back in the day, after a little too much substance, we took the term ‘energy’ even further afield. You could not really attach a number to it there.
Yeah I got into trouble initially when I referred to a GPU “powering” a monitor, etc. I could not think of a good word for what I meant and I still don’t know of one.
Unfortunately, my use of the word echoed the bullshit, nonsense use of “powering” by marketers/advertisers who say things like “Powered by Pepsi!!” when they really mean “Pepsi gave us some money.”
Driving.
Yes
“Video drive” is even a legitimate term in video display electronics, referring to the signal that eventually becomes the display (as glowing phosphors or illuminated LEDs or such). It’s colloquially common to say you’re driving your display panel with the output of a such-and-such video card.
Yes. “Driving” is good. I think I did say that a few times but not always.