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rsync on May 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Echo Show

"I have sort of come to the same conclusion that these home assistants would be best as plug ins to a TV with HDMI pass through."

Wait - is "HDMI passthrough" a thing ?

I wouldn't think so - HDMI has copy protection on it and so an HDMI passthrough device would need to MITM the normal signal ...

Would be very interested to know if this exists and if so, how it works ...

mhermher on May 9, 2017 [–]

The Xbox One is the only device I know of that has it. There may be others. A quick search seems to suggest so, but it appears that a lot of it use it for audio only? Not sure how that works.

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