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Why would they pay the HDMI licensing fees and waste time routing the PCB traces for HDMI signals just for this? The video port is only for diagnostics, not wat

Why would they pay the HDMI licensing fees and waste time routing the PCB traces for HDMI signals just for this? The video port is only for diagnostics, not watching Netflix on it, and for that it's perfect.

extraduder_ire 3y ago
It'd be a convenient add-on for the $2 licensing (IIRC) it costs for the port, so you can use common displays. I'd expect displayport to be more likely to be added though. Sadly, I think part of the HDMI licence means you can't put analogue outputs on a device with a HDMI port after a certain year. (2014, I think. It was before then that I read that)
- Rinzler89 3y ago
  > so you can use common displays VGA capable displays ARE common where this thing will be used (racks, movie sets/studios, etc). Plus, those display outputs are for emergencies only as this will always be used headless all the time. You'll get your GUI video output from the thin client connected to that thing over the network. >I'd expect displayport to be more likely to be added though. Not in severs. You don't want to waste PCI-E lanes for driving a display output that will never be used and that server chip doesn't even have an iGPU anyway. Plus, the VGA output is most likely only displays what the motherboard controller is doing and can't display the GUI of the OS running on the CPU. Also, the VGA connector is miles more robust and fault tolerant than digital outputs where if the handshake fails you get no picture.
Ekaros 3y ago
On other hand, just imagine how awesome mediabox this would be? Not that anyone will ever use it as one, but you could fit enough content for very long time.
bunabhucan 3y ago
It takes 2.5 hours to fill. What are you supposed to do during that time, watch a movie on your phone? Maybe there's a pro version with roku / disney+ / netflix etc. integration.

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Why would they pay the HDMI licensing fees and waste time routing the PCB traces for HDMI signals just for this? The video port is only for diagnostics, not wat

by Rinzler89 3y ago

extraduder_ire 3y ago
It'd be a convenient add-on for the $2 licensing (IIRC) it costs for the port, so you can use common displays. I'd expect displayport to be more likely to be added though. Sadly, I think part of the HDMI licence means you can't put analogue outputs on a device with a HDMI port after a certain year. (2014, I think. It was before then that I read that)
- Rinzler89 3y ago
  > so you can use common displays VGA capable displays ARE common where this thing will be used (racks, movie sets/studios, etc). Plus, those display outputs are for emergencies only as this will always be used headless all the time. You'll get your GUI video output from the thin client connected to that thing over the network. >I'd expect displayport to be more likely to be added though. Not in severs. You don't want to waste PCI-E lanes for driving a display output that will never be used and that server chip doesn't even have an iGPU anyway. Plus, the VGA output is most likely only displays what the motherboard controller is doing and can't display the GUI of the OS running on the CPU. Also, the VGA connector is miles more robust and fault tolerant than digital outputs where if the handshake fails you get no picture.
Ekaros 3y ago
On other hand, just imagine how awesome mediabox this would be? Not that anyone will ever use it as one, but you could fit enough content for very long time.
bunabhucan 3y ago
It takes 2.5 hours to fill. What are you supposed to do during that time, watch a movie on your phone? Maybe there's a pro version with roku / disney+ / netflix etc. integration.