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Over the years, we’ve seen a good number of interfaces used for computer monitors, TVs, LCD panels and other all-things-display purposes. We’ve lived through VGA and the large variety of analog interfaces that preceded it, then DVI, HDMI, and at some point, we’ve started getting devices with DisplayPort support. So you might think it’s more of the same. However, I’d like to tell you that you probably should pay more attention to DisplayPort – it’s an interface powerful in a way that we haven’t seen before.

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[-] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Fuck displayport! it's open source or nothing.

You want stupid apple bullshit? Because this is how you get stupid apple bullshit.

New HDMI is fine. Again, fuck displayport.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

open source or nothing New HDMI is fine

Are you a troll or just stupid? (And I ask that sincerely). HDMI is a proprietary licensed specification.

DisplayPort is royalty free and has a larger consortium backing the implementation.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

It's not quite fully open though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

VESA, the creators of the DisplayPort standard, state that the standard is royalty-free to implement. [...]

While VESA does not charge any per-device royalty fees, VESA requires membership for access to said standards.[70] The minimum cost is presently $5,000 (or $10,000 depending on Annual Corporate Sales Revenue) annually.[71]

That doesn't change how it's, hm, questionable to prefer HDMI on the basis of "open source or nothing" compared to DisplayPort, but still.

[-] Coelacanthus@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

What ever DisplayPort do, HDMI do more badly. HDMI also requires Annual Fee to get document now (since 2021, before that the document was public available). And this is not the worst thing, the worst thing is the HDMI forum disallow anyone open source a driver which support HDMI 2.1 or higher.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417#note_2303163

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