Hello ^.^

I'm looking at buying a new laptop soon and I've found two places that sell the same one, but one with HDMI and one that desn't I assume. Even if it does, thats not the point. lol

I want to know what exactly are the advantages of having HDMI on my laptop and I've read a few other threads about HDMI here. From what I understand it's a port on the laptop for HDMI capable things, when retailers say it has HDMI.

In one of the posts I saw, I read this:

"It also allows playback of Blu-Ray or HD-DVD discs which have HDCP copy protection which cannot be played back using any other type of output."

Could someone explain this to me? I'm just trying to sum up what HDMI is capable of and whether I need it =P


Thank youuuuu =]