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I feel like it will be a long time before this is considered essential, if it ever is. An end-to-end 2.1 setup will get you 4K120 with e-ARC and numerous flavou
by deergomoo 2y ago
I feel like it will be a long time before this is considered essential, if it ever is. An end-to-end 2.1 setup will get you 4K120 with e-ARC and numerous flavours of VRR and HDR (though I don't think those last two are necessarily tied to a specific HDMI version).
Heck, it's still rare to find a TV where all HDMI ports are 2.1 (for years it was only LG, not sure if it's changed this year).
- doubled112 2y ago> still rare to find a TV where all HDMI ports are 2.1 On a couple of 4K Samsung monitors I have, HDMI port 1 is HDMI 1.4 and HDMI port 2 is HDMI 2.0. Couldn't be simpler. The HDMI version is on the port label. Something about the situation makes me chuckle.
- radicality 2y agoWhy aren’t they all hdmi 2.0, isn’t it backwards compatible? Or it’s just to save them a $ while technically still being able to advertise it as hdmi 2.0 ?
- doubled112 2y agoI'm going to assume it was cost cutting. The boss said to make sure it had an HDMI 2 port. The engineer could have interpreted it two ways, so they did both ways in one.
- Iulioh 2y agoProbably it would need a better CPU to handle more traces and that's the real expense
- Gigachad 2y agoVR needs it. You’ve got two displays that have a very high resolution and refresh rate, which need to share one cable.