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But what's the point?  Higher resolutions?  But do people need or want TVs with more than 8K resolution in their homes?  More HDR?  Are people having problems with 10-bit video?  And why can't HDMI adopt 12-bit or higher depth?  More audio formats?  HDMI is already has support for any audio standard (Dolby Digital, Atmos, DTS, etc.) a media publisher is likely to use.

Sounds like a solution desperately in need of a problem.

This resolution is pointless for home theater use.  But we may see it in actual movie theaters.  Right now, theater projectors go up to 8K, which (to my eyes, anyway) is good enough.  But maybe not for people sitting in the front row of a large theater room.

But for those vertical-market applications, we'll probably see the equipment manufacturers shipping custom cables with the equipment, maybe contracting it out to one of the big-name cable manufacturers.  The odds of seeing such a cable in your local Best Buy is going to be very low, because (IMO, anyway), there is going to be no actual need for consumer equipment to use that data rate.

At least until someone decides they want to put a 25G Ethernet channel on the same cable with a video signal.   

Sounds like a perfect use for blockchain technology.

Migrate the CVE database to a blockchain and encourage multiple entities (tech companies, cloud providers and security-focused non-profits in addition to government agencies) to host mirrors.  There's really no reason something like this should be controlled by a single government-funded organization.  Especially when government programs (of all kinds) can (and always could) be canceled at the drop of a hat.