All I know is that there are demonstrations of a computer (PC or Mac) being used as a media server and it connecting to a TV via Thunderbolt viewing a Bluray movie, plus they are also doing a data transfer between hard drives on the same chain.

No, I don't suspect they'll replace Speakerlink with Thunderbolt, but just adding Thunderbolt for source ala a computer. that's the direction things seem to be progressing at.

HDMI has had their problems due to several different versions.

I just see Thunderbolt as potentially eliminating HDMI. there are adapters to change Thunderbolt into HDMI, which some people might do.

I just think that Thunderbolt has a tremendous amount of potential to replace older connections.

I think it would be nice to just connect a Mac/PC that has Thunderbolt and not have to deal with HDMI, just because of the cheap connector.

Promise Technologies already has Thunderbolt RAID drives that people are using to store large amounts of audio and video and they aren't tremendously expensive.

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