As I read this the patent licensing isn't even under discussion here. It's only the engineering specification that's available for free. Sure you could build something, but you'd still need to license the patents to sell it.

Thats right lock it up more and more. Continue to price yourself out of a market and make viewing media like your going to jail without paying 3 thousand dollars for the chance to consume it on your own time (BEFORE SCREEN)

Smart move considering the whole Idea is like shooting yourself in the foot and delaying deployment

I'm confused as to this meaning they are dropping the licensing fee for 1.4a adoption for manufacturers so that HDMI can retain it's dominance over rival Displayport, or if this means that their 3D annotation being delivered far in advance of hardware so people can be ready for it as an eventuality but the licensince fee $10K per annum, pennies per device remains in place (versus the less rigidly structured displayport licensing scheme).