what is the cost of HDMI?

[Letalis Sonus]

Despite all the talk surrounding DisplayPort I realize ED won't abandon HDMI this late

The SoC has no DisplayPort Controller, nobody expected that anything could be changed. Trying to include a DisplayPort jack solely for the purpose of future upgrades would require that quite a bunch of additional circuity would need to be placed on the SoC board, which is already pretty much crowded to its limit.

The only debatable point is that HDMI is simply some sort of extension to DVI-D, which could be used to avoid HDMI license fees - we need the connector for its small size.