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Designed by a coali­tion of con­sumer elec­tron­ics man­u­fac­tur­ers, includ­ing Sony, Sam­sung, LG and Valens, HDBaseT promises to not only carry video and audio sig­nals, but also pro­vide a net­work con­nec­tion, a USB sig­nal and even elec­tric­ity using a sin­gle cable.

You won’t even need to buy a fancy new cable to use it. Accord­ing to the HDBaseT spec­i­fi­ca­tion chart, you can “use exist­ing net­work wiring” with a stan­dard Cat5e/6 LAN cable and an RJ-45 con­nec­tor. The HDBaseT Alliance, which is made up of the afore­men­tioned elec­tron­ics com­pa­nies, has just finalised ver­sion 1.0 of the spec, and says it will be avail­able for licens­ing within the sec­ond half of this year.

via THINQ.co.uk – TV busi­ness kisses HDMI good­bye. This would be awe­some, I love the idea of two things, first a sin­gle cable to carry every­thing and sec­ond is that it’s a cable already in use. How­ever, just about every 6 months I read another story of a new stan­dard that never goes pass the con­cept phase.