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learned today that people *really* underestimate how complex digital video signal transport is

i examined my assumptions and learned that they include "ah, I think everyone probably has at least a basic understanding of gigabit line codes and SerDes". that... that would explain why

@whitequark Slightly related: I was pretty surprised to discover that both VGA and HDMI have I2C lines.

@oscherler "we have two spare pins and a need to record 256 bytes of data for EDID!" "do you know what uses two pins and can store 256 bytes of data? that's right, 24C00!"