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.
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.
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
Cool! Maybe I’ll get some next time I break one.
I don’t remember the last time I had a cable come out on accident, but I have definitely broken multiple DP jackets and getting those unlatched without looking is way too frustrating (way more annoying than guessing the orientation of the HDMI cable wrong).
Not only is DisplayPort better, they have eDP which has been used as a beefed up MIPI for laptops and tablets for years.
Plus it supports HDMI and DVI for backward compatibility, so really it’s just the last standing corporate media standard that hasn’t fallen to its superior open counterpart.
I wish my eyes were constantly upgraded to keep up with these resolutions
I wish manufacturers would bother to mark the capabilities of their otherwise identical looking ports and cables, so we could figure out what the hell we were looking at when holding a Device That Does Not Work in one hand and a cable in the other.
I think this is the reason a number of standards are going to active cables, so the device will know the cable isn’t up to standard.
Or in the case of USB-C, so it doesn’t catch fire after having five amps cranked through it.
It’s bully for the device if it knows, but that doesn’t help the user who has just pulled one identical looking cable out of many from the drawer and will have no idea until they plug it in whether or not they will get a picture, nothing, near-undiagnosable partial functionality, or smoke.
I’m thinking that the user will get a notification that the cable they’re using isn’t the correct one.
On the screen that doesn’t work?
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
I don’t believe in anything over 1080p. Waste of bandwidth.
My eyes have been on an update binge lately, unfortunately it’s just been downgrades.
80 gigabit is a crazy amount of bandwidth, and it seems like HDMI will leapfrog that?
Ia it gonna have drm that prevents foss drivers to interact with it?
Let it work on Linux please
No thank you. I’d like to pass on this.
We can already do 8K resolution. We still haven’t gotten to a point where the average broadcast is anything more than 720p or 1080p.
It’s the reason I never bought a 4K or 8K tv. Sure, I have a new tv, but the only thing thats 8k is the forced ads into the TVs OS.
And that’s why I don’t see benefit to a new HDMI. It’s just going to support more protocols, and make tv’s do more things that we don’t want. It’s going to make DRM in the cable. It’s going to make unskippable ads, it’s going to make all this shit that nobody wants or needs, but ooooOOOOooooo!!! Look! It’s new tech, so everybody gotta have it!!!
But how’s it going to improve your visual experience if the content isn’t any better resolution to begin with?
do you really think the only use for a screen is television? boy, let me introduce you to the world of personal computing, it’s all the rage
No, but it’s the only reason for HDMI (along with AV receivers) because it’s all the manufacturers support, so all of us home theater nerds that do care about this stuff have no real* choice but to keep up with the HDMI world. Yes, you can set up a media server that streams 4K video, but you’re not going to find a DisplayPort 4K UHD player, or a 7.2 AVR that plugs into your 77” OLED and supports all of your game consoles. HDMI is just the unfortunate reality there.
That said, the tech that actually takes advantage of the new cable specs tends to lag behind significantly, and new gaming consoles that support HDMI 2.2 likely will in a limited (ultimately disappointing) capacity for years, just like previous versions.
(Also the top comment in this thread doesn’t really seem to reflect modern reality for most people I know. Most people are using their TV to stream at 1080p - 4K, not watching broadcast TV - in which case, yeah, get a $60 720p LCD or whatever, HDMI specs won’t matter to that kind of viewer. Still, subscription streaming quality definitely doesn’t take full advantage of your expensive shiny new TV the way physical media - or a media server - might, but that’s another conversation).
I just got devices doing 2.1 end to end…
