Who he? I suppose you believe everything you read on the Internet? There are plenty of sources on the Internet which will claim God exists.
My biggest mistake was completely over-estimating HDMI. I had not realised it is so rooted in analogue video that basically it's a digital version of the same, including blanking periods and sync. That means the HDMI source has to generate timing, when in reality the (modern digital) TV is going to be reading the data into a buffer and ignoring the timing stuff. HDMI could have been data-agnostic, simply providing a high-bandwidth transmission path by aggregating the data capacity of three synchronous (or four asynchronous) channels.
No, I do not take anecdotal information as gospel. It has to be backed up by authenticatable data.
