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Wait until you hear about Bluetooth. Or HDMI. Open standards with nominal fees are pretty standard.
by jvanderbot 3y ago
Wait until you hear about Bluetooth. Or HDMI.
Open standards with nominal fees are pretty standard.
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- throw0101b 3y ago> Wait until you hear about Bluetooth. Or HDMI. You mean the organizations/standards that are run by non-profits where multiple competitors get together and hash things out so that no one company has a leg up on another?
- amstan 3y agoAnd where if you have a non-computer device, having a HDMI port forces you to not have any other ports due to licensing. Ever wonder why most TVs and Home Theater Receivers do not come with DP ports?
- redox99 3y agoSource?
- vel0city 3y agoI have many devices which have HDMI, Displayport, DVI, component, and more. Some with SDI as well. Home theater receivers use HDMI because the vast majority of things a home user is going to use with it also uses HDMI.
- manicdee 3y agoThat's related to HDCP rather than HDMI. Though it does mean that any video you move to a non-HDCP monitor ends up being just a grey rectangle.
- throw0101b 3y ago> Ever wonder why most TVs and Home Theater Receivers do not come with DP ports? Legacy and network effects: home A/V has HDMI because HDMI is on all home A/V equipment. At this point you can probably have either/both and things would work fine. One technical distinction for HDMI is perhaps having CEC.
- jvanderbot 3y agoFirst it was "it's not open". It is freely available according to other comments. Then it was "it's not really free if they charge a fee", but that's common enough to be standard practice. Now it's "But their org structure". Not only is this a moving goalpost, I wonder if we're asymptomatically approaching "I just think Elon is a tool". Even if not, the news on TFA is good, because Tesla chargers are now more open.