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DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a plug that claws itself in place

Just FYI, you can get DP cables without the retention clips. I too find them unnecessary and annoying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can, but they’re hard to come by where I live at least. I have two, but they’re Mini DP to DP. So haven’t gotten to use them since I was running my 970 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We also have 10-30 cables of each of the usual lengths in the IT supply room at the office, and they all have the same mechanism, no matter what manufacturer was chosen during purchasing.

And then, once in a while, you come across a screen where the port is rotated 180 degrees so the push is between the plug and the back of the screen and you basically need child labor to unplug it in proper manner.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

where the port is rotated 180 degrees so the push is between the plug and the back of the screen

That ought to be a crime! I would be getting fed up with that pretty quickly and making some improvised modifications to disable the retention clips!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

In this situation I typically pull out my Leatherman's knife to depress the clips, but it's definitely not easy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Really? It's been years since I've seen a display port connector with the latches on them.