Fuck hdmi
Displayport needs to start showing up on TVs and eventually get standards for stuff like eARC and HDMI CEC
TV OEMs are apparently part of the HDMI forum and therefore complicit.
We need EU regulation if we want to have this.
I remember when HDMI came out and then DP.
I wish I knew what was actually going on at the time with regards to licensing, I just knew they both worked and didn’t really pay much attention to things. Sometimes I’d use DP sometimes HDMI.
If I’d known, I definitely would have made a more concerted effort to support DP when it could have made a bigger difference.
DisplayPort for the win
Sincerely! As someone who dislikes DisplayPort, moves like that makes me want to use it over HDMI.
Hmm, that’s a new one for me. Why the dislike for DisplayPort?
I had many problems with it in the past. It has been behaving well with me in the last 1-2 years though
“We need to develop a one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.”
The use case of “make a shit ton of money licensing a proprietary standard” is kind of mutually exclusive with other use cases. It would be hard to cover.
At the time, there were too many standards. But looking back from today, we see that standardization does eventually occur, it just takes time.
They did, it was displayport. HDMI actively removes features the TV makers don’t want you to have.
There’s a huge rabbit hole with HDMI certification…
Like, display port is better in everyway, but people make a shit ton of money off putting “HDMI certified” on products, so that’s still the default.
It already comes with DP 1.4. enough for me
Well Valve should sell an optional DisplayPort adapter then, right?
The Steam Machine is supposed to be plug and play, and not getting VRR on your TV is a huge compromise.
Most people who want plug and play probably don’t know what VRR is.
Heck I don’t fully remember it and I actually learned why it’s nice and would want it.
It should automatically be enabled if it’s supported, and just give you a straight up better experience. At lower frame rates and budget hardware, the difference is especially dramatic.
