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Originally posted by tiffany View Post
Why so sure; They have their own solution (Thunderbolt) which is much better than the crap HDMI.
If you watch the Movie Industry it's not hard to find the suspect. Some MPAA member must believe that the open standard can be used to develop software so that we can decode the movies through HDMI. So closing the spec the FOSS community can't use that and they are fine by selling their movies.
The physical media is dead. No more blurays or replacements. Everything is through streaming. And a FOSS software won't pay royalties to have eg Dolby Atmos playback. By closing the specs we can't develop decoders and we must pay the certified devices.
Originally posted by Termy View PostDoes HDMI have ANY advantage over DP? I know hdmi sady is the standard in TVs, but other than that i simply don't use that crap...
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostI think the reason is simple - they don't care about anything but collecting patent fees. Open specification doesn't bring them any money, so they don't care.
It should speed up the demise of it, but HDMI is too proliferated and they control a big market (TVs). Once their control is broken (i.e. let's say TVs will get USB4 everywhere), HDMI will quickly become history.
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Originally posted by Termy View PostDoes HDMI have ANY advantage over DP? I know hdmi sady is the standard in TVs, but other than that i simply don't use that crap...
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And what about samsung, lg and other TV makers. they use linux kernel and base on the license they need to make linux kernel publicly available. So if they add something new from HDMI spec they can't make it public and linux kernel license request them to do that.
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Originally posted by benpicco View PostFortunately there is Sci-Hub.
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Originally posted by TheOne View Postit has to be that some company with fat cash to spend, paid out someone involved with the HDMI specification to take such an action. All of you can imagine which kind of companies would do that...
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Originally posted by programmerjake View Post
HDMI is only useful if you need backward compatibility with DVI using a passive connector, otherwise DisplayPort seems much more reasonable.
If you're only using your computer in a pure office/gaming experience, maybe.
If you're using it as a multimedia device for office, gaming, photo editing, movies, music, etc..., you'll need an AV receiver and/or a TV. Then HDMI it is.
My RX 560 is hooked to an AV receiver (TV pass-through and 5.1) in HDMI for entertainment (in the couch) and in DP to the PC monitor for office stuff (on a desk) with no sound (no monitor speakers).
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