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My design would be HDMI 3.Y where Y is a variable-length Base32 encoding of the value of a bitmask representing the presence of the underlying features of an HDMI port/cable/device.

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This is terrible. You expect an average consumer to start converting base32 to binary to check what features their cable support? I mean I'm all for educating the public but this is just completely unreasonable

I'm pretty sure it's a joke, maybe your comment is also one but it's harder to tell.

> You expect an average consumer to start converting base32 to binary to check what features their cable support?

Fret not, consumer! Just install the HDMI™ Companion App™* for easy parsing of the version numbers.

*HDMI™ Companion App™ and facial recognition are required for decoding of 4k HDR content on your media devices.

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