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minus-squareZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up44·23 hours agoThe primary design goal of VGA was to display video. The primary design goal of HDMI was to prevent the display of video.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·20 hours agoAnd to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.
minus-squareNarauko@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoEvery time I notice I cannot use my full refresh rate over the HDMI on my 7900xtx in Linux because of licencing issues, I get rationally pissed off.
minus-square𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍🔻𝕯𝖃 (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·22 hours agodisplayport is the modern successor to vga.
minus-squareAngryDeuce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 hours agoI wish DisplayPort would become the standard already. It’s superior in every way. HDMI is the microUSB of the video world and I wish it would die already in lieu of DP and USB-C/ThunderBolt.
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 hours ago It’s superior in every way. Not every way, it doesn’t do audio. That’s really the only downside.
minus-squaredracc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 hours agoThat’s incorrect. DP has had audio (up to 8 channels, 24bit@192kHz) since 1.0, nowadays it supports up to 32 channels and 1536kHz sample rate. Wikipedia has the official standards PDFs linked.
minus-squareSamskara@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoHMDI can also do ethernet, which is very convenient. If you have two devices that support it.
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoAnd pass remote control inputs
The primary design goal of VGA was to display video. The primary design goal of HDMI was to prevent the display of video.
And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.
Every time I notice I cannot use my full refresh rate over the HDMI on my 7900xtx in Linux because of licencing issues, I get rationally pissed off.
displayport is the modern successor to vga.
I wish DisplayPort would become the standard already. It’s superior in every way.
HDMI is the microUSB of the video world and I wish it would die already in lieu of DP and USB-C/ThunderBolt.
Not every way, it doesn’t do audio. That’s really the only downside.
That’s incorrect. DP has had audio (up to 8 channels, 24bit@192kHz) since 1.0, nowadays it supports up to 32 channels and 1536kHz sample rate. Wikipedia has the official standards PDFs linked.
I stand corrected
HMDI can also do ethernet, which is very convenient. If you have two devices that support it.
And pass remote control inputs
and it also has a locking mechanism!