Why does HDMI still exist in 2021? It's technologically inferior to DP, and it actually costs MORE for manufacturers to implement into their products due to licensing.
Why does HDMI still exist in 2021? It's technologically inferior to DP
Why does HDMI still exist in 2021? It's technologically inferior to DP, and it actually costs MORE for manufacturers to implement into their products due to licensing.
i agree, that's why i still use dvi-d and vga
bsaed
go back
smile! you're on cringe camera
What?
Why does your screenshot look like shit?
Ungodly based
Because of it's ubiquity with normies, since early it was highly desirable for being "better" than the then-established solutions and it's anti-consumer copyright detection bullshit. DP just doesn't have the luxury of being implemented everywhere already, market inertia I assume, and the HDMI implementors might just pay companies not to include DP in lowend hardware for all we know, or something, or I might be schizo.
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Thread should've ended here.
People still using 1080p monitors from 2013 will avoid GPUs that are DP only because they don't want to spend $5 on a dongle
DP exists since 2008
My 1080p monitors from 2010 have it
DP supports HDCP and adds DPCP
Also, display port supports daisy chaining
That's me. I've got 2 1080p monitors, one from 2013 and another from 2015ish and my comp has a 3070 in it.
Frick displayport and these stupid fricking dongles I had to get
>Why does HDMI still exist in 2021?
I can use 1 cable for any monitor or tv i got
HDMI is just DisplayPort with DRM.
You don't think companies spend lots of money on DRM?
It's not about you, or what makes "sense".
It has "HD" right in the name bro, it's high definition.
Because money. Even when it released, HDMI was objectively inferior to other open standards already released. But HDMI was israelited and its whole purpose was DRM, so now that's what is standard on consumer products. Thank god at least PCs have display port.
Probably because it's ubiquitous among consumer electronics outside computers and the average consumer doesn't know about better.
DisplayPort, whilst superior, was designed for computers. Not televisions or video game consoles and the like.
Because it's much cooler than displayport which is hella lame and for poor people
Because it doesn't tell the device that the monitor is disconnected when you turn it off.
if i could upvote this, i would. unironmically
why would you want that?
i hate my desktop getting jumbled unless i precisely match the timing on both of my moitors' power switches
DisplayPort doesn’t do Ethernet
HDMI does
Fricking smart tvs trying to get around my wifi dead zone.
Thankfully due to computer monitors not being glorified spying equipment like smart TVs
>HDMI does
Is there even a single consumer device that works with ethernet over hdmi?
I remember an old Windows tablet having a weird dongle that broke HDMI out to ethernet and VGA
But it predates the HDMI ethernet standard so afaik it's just a proprietary oddity
I think wifi pretty much killed ethernet over HDMI before it's inception.
Literally the whole point was to save cabling and yet WIFI already existed and is robust enough for 99% of people.
The rest who want wired connections are happy to deal with the extra cable clutter
>and it actually costs MORE for manufacturers to implement into their products due to licensing.
Extremely brainlet take
Windows didn't work right with DP until like 2 years ago.
It worked correctly since Vista/7.
It is for A/V equipment. The only reason it is even on monitors because they are repurposed small HDTV units.
DP makes the computer think the monitor has been disconnected when it goes into stand-by.
Because that's how energy saver and PnP is suppose to work with computer monitors.
No, it's not.
Yes, it suppose to work that you brainlet. Blame OS for not implementing proper PnP correctly with DVI and its HDMI sibling for years. VGA gets a pass because it predates PnP and wasn't designed for it.
You have no idea how many stupid handshaking issues that DVI/HDMI had because the OS doesn't do proper PnP.
No, it's not.
The display should not be "disconnected" when it is powered off. Sense pins can work regardless of power being supplied by the display, because it comes from the device instead.
The computer doesn't need to know anything about the display, OTHER THAN it is still fricking plugged in.
And that's what is present on both HDMI and DisplayPort, the Hotplug Detect pin. But for whatever reason, DisplayPort connected displays tend to act like they have been disconnected when they are turned off.
not him but i had plenty of issues using 2 monitors for a decade
thank god for ctrl+shift+win+b otherwise i would have to restart my pc 6 times a day
There were a bunch of articles back in April saying they were finally going to have a fix for the rapid hotplug detect problem in the October '21 update, but I'm not sure if it actually made it into the update and I haven't taken the time to test it myself yet.
I eventually just settled on disabling monitor sleep and using a solid black screensaver instead. The screensaver doesn't actually reduce power-on hours or energy use of course, but I like having the monitors dim when I'm not using the computer.
There's also a little program called PersistentWindows that helps move windows and stuff back into the positions you had them in.
Are you gonna make a thread here everytime Linus shits out an opinion?
Well, one thing HDMI has going for it is its a far simpler standard. DP is packet based so requires a complex buffering system.
Does DP support audio passthrough like HDMI does?
It's nice not having to have multiple cables coming out of your computer, I have my speakers connected to my monitor because the audio comes from my GPU.