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So you'd rather have 8 different standards? I know I love having to have a DVI, displayport, VGA, and HDMI adapter in my bag in order to have my bases covered

by tw04 10y ago

So you'd rather have 8 different standards? I know I love having to have a DVI, displayport, VGA, and HDMI adapter in my bag in order to have my bases covered for presentations. I'm confused the scenario you're imagining in which someone both doesn't have their own, known good cable, and also is in a place that doesn't provide a cable, where displayport would even come into play. I can think of exactly 0. If the projector needs a displayport capable usb-c, it's going to already be attached to the projector. If I need one for home, I'm going to buy one that supports it.

lmm 10y ago
> So you'd rather have 8 different standards? I know I love having to have a DVI, displayport, VGA, and HDMI adapter in my bag in order to have my bases covered for presentations. If there are 8 different cable types I'd rather have 8 different connectors, yes. Remember going around the office asking to borrow a cable to charge your 'phone and having to figure out micro vs mini vs sony's weird thing vs apple's weird thing? It was a bit silly but at least having physically different connectors meant that you could tell whether a given cable would charge your phone or not. Now it sounds like that's no longer true.