Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
Well you know your name, or who is being referred to when you hear it.
The model of maturity. I guess if I say Resident idiot, you'll answer.

I still need to do some checking but I think you are wrong on this, my BR player and HD satelite receiver automatically set themselves to the display, if there isn't any exchange how do they do that.
That is not part of the handshake, that is a completely different process within HDMI

I was told there are also other communications between the two pieces being connected via HDMI. The key thing you refer to is just HDCP, that's not the only reason for HDMI.
You are apparently mixing up too many processes. There is the handshake, their are bitstream latency processes(which is completely different from the handshake), their are bitstream control functions, and many other communication AFTER the handshake takes place. But it is not even close to 20 different things, even after the handshake has taken place.