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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] 34 points 10 months ago (35 children)

I used to think DisplayPort was the future, about 10-13 years ago.

By now I feel it has come and gone.

HDMI 2.1+ is making its way in everywhere.

It’s a better plug.
It tends to support enough pixels/Hz for most people.
It’s more ubiquitous, being on both TV’s laptops, and monitors.

Pretty sure the PC desktop segment will keep the port alive for a while, but right now it doesn’t seem like a very useful port apart from having a plug that claws itself in place and is often unnecessarily hard to unplug.

With Ultra High Speed HDMI (these names are ridiculous, seriously, look at the standard names) there’s very few, if any, reasons to use DP, apart from compliant HDMI cables costing an arm and a leg.

To be honest I’m struggling a bit to understand why it’s not just all pushed through a CAT6/7 Ethernet cable at this point.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (21 children)

DisplayPort is a better system than HDMI. It even can ride piggy back on USB-C, which means a display can both power a computer on the same line as it connects to a laptop with. DisplayPort also supports daisy chaining(although it's not a common feature on monitors), so you could potentially have a single USB-C cable going to a laptop and then have multiple monitors connected with needing a dock or anything of that sort.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

But (most of that) that’s the display port standard, not the plug.

DisplayPort over USB-C works mostly fine, except that it’s “fine”, not perfect. Daisy chaining tends to make it less fine.

It’s a better standard, but a worse plug. Important distinction.

That doesn’t matter in the long run though. Better doesn’t always win.

Just look at how USB won over FireWire. And FireWire could daisy chain too

My iPhone 13 Pro syncs slower over USB than my second generation iPod did over FireWire.

While I obviously can’t blame that fully on USB, it’s an ironic observation, especially since my OG iPod would be 21 years old now, if it still worked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s a better standard, but a worse plug.

Say what now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t like the DisplayPort connector.

Apparently an unpopular opinion, but hey. It’s mine, and I’ll keep it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So it's not actually a worse connector, then? Gotcha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My arguments is that is. But, hey, read it whatever way makes you feel better about your own opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You've not even presented an argument; you've only made a statement that it's a worse connector. What are you basing this so-called argument on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Double standards much? What is your argument for it being better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You're the one who made the original claim, buddy. The burden of proof is upon you. I've made no such claims about the superiority of either connector here.