• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    DisplayPort is the better product but has lost out to HDMI. I’d be fine if it was discontinued.

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          15 days ago

          The sad part is how using DP on your TV, if you find it, is shunned by Netflix and will not allow you to play 4K content.

          They rely on some form of DRM protection which is available in HDMI.

          Absolutely crazy. I really wish HDMI would not be such an omnipresent standard among TVs…

          Source: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444 > “check your devices”.

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          16 days ago

          It’s very rare and you certainly won’t find it on anything affordable. I wish they would start putting DisplayPort inputs on TVs. They had VGA inputs back when TVs had more than 2 inputs on them.

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            15 days ago

            They never gone do that for obvious reason,let’s look who created and who are on the list of HDMI group…Lattice Semiconductor, Maxell, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Philips, Sony, Technicolor, TOSHIBA big players of TV so they created their own proprietary standard spread it on the market and u have to pay money for licensing manufactur to install it in ur device such as TV boxes, videocards and etc.Meanwhile display port is open standard which even technically dominate HDMI about speed of transfer and other things.

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              15 days ago

              They never gonna do that, voluntarily. Forcing capitalism to act in the best interests of consumers is the governments job. Capitalism without regulation is authoritarian dictatorship.

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      16 days ago

      The history of tech is littered with superior standards but in this case go look at any video card. We haven’t lost out just yet.

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        15 days ago

        Every device that has a DisplayPort also has hdmi. Not every device that has hdmi also has a DisplayPort. DisplayPort clearly lost.

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          15 days ago

          Incorrect? I have multiple devices that have DP and no HDMI. I also manage hundreds of devices at work that are the same. Your stance seems to be held up by ignorance.