Yippee, more updates to the corporate DRM cable that you shouldn’t be using anyway!
i just had another hdmi cord fail yesterday! what a good design :/
Really? I’ve had more trouble with DisplayPort since I keep forgetting about the locking feature and bust the jacket off.
I honestly prefer HDMI cables, but I hate the closed nature of the HDMI standard.
DP has a “locking” feature? What’s that?
It “clicks” when inserted, and you have to have really small fingers, do magic and wiggle at the same time to get the damn cable out without ripping some hardware out.
It’s a big strong head too, no need for these click teeth IMO.
They make display port cables without the locking feature. I don’t have a link unfortunately but I have a few in my box of cables that I’m definitely going to use one day
I have genuinely never had a HDMI or DP cable break on me, guess I’m lucky 🤷♀️
I think I’ve had one HDMI connector get bent out of shape, and I’ve broken 2 or 3 DP cables due to the locking bit. And I’ve only been using DP for 5 years and have used HDMI for >10 (15?). The DP lock is solving a problem I’ve never had, while creating one I never considered to be an issue.
So I honestly prefer HDMI in general, and I’d have no reason to care about DP if HDMI standards people weren’t such thugs. But alas, DP has basically won the PC, so I guess I’ll get used to the clip.
You can get DP cables without the lock
Don’t forget more length restrictions because the copper can’t keep up.
Ia it gonna have drm that prevents foss drivers to interact with it?
Let it work on Linux please
Now I wonder how strict they’ll actually be with the standard? 2.1 is a mess because you can call just about anything 2.1 now.
And then it takes forever for companies to adopt it.
I wish my eyes were constantly upgraded to keep up with these resolutions
My eyes have been on an update binge lately, unfortunately it’s just been downgrades.
I can definitely see the difference between a 1440p 27 inch display vs a 5k 27 inch display, add in high refresh rate and HDR and you already are close to exceeding the DP 2.0 maximum bandwidth (without display stream compression). I wish we could finally get decent high DPI monitors on desktops that aren’t made by or for apple Macs
Though that’s not where you would use HDMI. I would argue for TV:s, 4k is generally enough, and HDMI 2.1 already has enough bandwidth for 4k 120 Hz 12 bit-per-color uncompressed.
But DisplayPort, yeah, that could use a bit more.
80 gigabit is a crazy amount of bandwidth, and it seems like HDMI will leapfrog that?
And how much are they charging to support the new standard ? DisplayPort is at least free and open.
