On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:13:41 PDT, Owen DeLong said:
I expect within my lifetime that multi-gigabit ethernet will become commonplace in the household LAN environment and that when that becomes reality, localized IP Multicast over multi-gigabit ethernet will eventually supplant HDMI as the primary transport for audio/video streams between devices (sources such as BD players, DVRs, computers, etc. and destinations such as receivers/amps, monitors, speaker drivers, etc.).
The only reason you got HDMI at all was because the content owners managed to get HDCP included. You won't get a replacement that doesn't do HDCP until we fix the sorry state of copyright in the US. So it's equivalent to asking if we're going to fix copyright within your lifetime... :)