HDMI 2.2 Announced With 96 Gbps Bandwidth - Still With Restricted Licensing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HDMI 2.2 Announced With 96 Gbps Bandwidth - Still With Restricted Licensing

The HDMI Forum used CES for today announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification that will be available to HDMI 2.x adopters in the first half of the calendar year...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.2-Announced

[bogdanbiv]

HDMI licensing group needs to put it where sun don't shine. Please and thank you. That's very much trash I don't need. Just my respectful opinion

[cen1]

Indeed, HDMI can f* right off.

[shmerl]

More unusable garbage. Everyone should be using DisplayPort.

[Quackdoc]

DP is nice but boy is it so complicated. It's not really a wonder why it's not as common. but well thats what happens when you have a protocol that suits everyone's needs.

[Forge]

DP is nice but boy is it so complicated. It's not really a wonder why it's not as common. but well thats what happens when you have a protocol that suits everyone's needs.

Just like HDMI, you plug and it works. What are you encountering with DP that's complicated, that isn't for HDMI?

[RejectModernity]

We need TVs with DP, fuck HDMI cartel

[Errinwright]

DP is nice but boy is it so complicated. It's not really a wonder why it's not as common. but well thats what happens when you have a protocol that suits everyone's needs.

I think the primary issue with DP is the leniency involved in misrepresentation of DP2.1 marketing. Some could argue it verges on a scam (e.g. certain gaming monitors or cable manufacturers etc.).

[numacross]

Just like HDMI, you plug and it works. What are you encountering with DP that's complicated, that isn't for HDMI?

With daisy-chaining and/or USB-C the bandwidth/version combinations get quite complex.

[Forge]

With daisy-chaining and/or USB-C the bandwidth/version combinations get quite complex.

These are things that HDMI flat out can't do at all. If DP offers more things, and they aren't easy, that's not a win for HDMI. Everything HDMI does, DP does as well, as easily, or better. That's the point I was making.