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HDMI predates DP by 5 years, switching wouldn't enable any specific use case, and that 5 years head start means HDMI has market inertia. Yes we should use it b
by Veliladon 3y ago
HDMI predates DP by 5 years, switching wouldn't enable any specific use case, and that 5 years head start means HDMI has market inertia.
Yes we should use it because it's better but the practicality? There's so much gear that's HDMI that would have to be replaced or require new active adaptors. It's so much industry and consumer effort for such a marginal gain.
- lucideer 3y agoForget all the other pros/cons - MST makes it worth any industry & consumer effort alone.
- patrickthebold 3y agoMy monitor is fairly old, but it only does 30Hz on the hdmi cable and 60Hz on the display port cable. I'm not sure the exact versions. I think its displayport 1.2 and HDMI < 2. So for me, it was super important to get display port out.
- metaphor 3y ago> HDMI predates DP by 5 years... - HDMI v1.0 initial release = 2002-12-09 - DisplayPort v1.0 initial release = 2006-05-01 To be sure, just under 3.5 years; HDMI rolled into v1.3 a month after DisplayPort v1.0 saw the light of day. Agreed on the impact of market inertia.
- Dalewyn 3y agoHDMI's marketshare has nothing to do with its headstart: HDMI is backed by the entire entertainment industry and was designed for televisions, while DisplayPort is backed by VESA and other computer hardware manufacturers and was designed for computer monitors. For every computer monitor there are hundreds if not probably thousands of televisions. HDMI's marketshare has everything to do with who the players involved are and just how much weight they have to throw around. Even computer hardware generally have more HDMI ports than DisplayPort ports.
- babypuncher 3y agoHDMI also supports a lot of home theater specific features that DisplayPort does not. DisplayPort never could have replaced HDMI because DisplayPort never tried to solve the same problems HDMI did.