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minus-squareOpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·24 days ago“We need to develop a one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.”
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·24 days agoThe 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.
minus-squareSuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 days agoAt the time, there were too many standards. But looking back from today, we see that standardization does eventually occur, it just takes time.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoThey did, it was displayport. HDMI actively removes features the TV makers don’t want you to have.
“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.