TV Brand => HDMI-CEC Marketing Trade Name
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- AOC => E-Link
- Hitachi => HDMI-CEC
- Insignia => MHL (Mobile High Definition Link)
- LG => SimpLink
- Mitsubishi => NetCommand for HDMI
- Onkyo => RIHD (Remot Interactive over HDMI)
- Panasonic => EasyLink
- Pioneer => Kuro Link
- Runco International => RuncoLink
- Samsung => AnyNet+
- Sharp => Aquos Link
- Sony => BRAVIA Sync
- Toshiba => CE-Link aka Regza Link
- Vizio => CEC
The Embedded Linux Wiki defines HDMI-CEC rather well. Briefly, this HDMI protocol allows controlling multiple devices using one controlling device such as the ubiquitous remote controller each TV and other types of consumer electronic devices have had to supply with their product. The trick is all devices have to be compliant and some manufacturers have implemented the protocol slightly differently so results may vary.
Regardless the more the TV per se becomes a networked computing platform the more it has to support various communications protocols and as time goes on compliance with specifications will be ironed out as such concerns have with other communications protocols however obfuscating facts with marketing bullsh!t will likely be with us forever.
