• Acidbath@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    oh im pretty sure this purely market competiton, not between the two ports but between manufactures.

    like if you want to compete with a company (ex. sony) who is making x tv with hdmi, ideally you want a similar product available that has the same ports. The goal is to sell into peoples already existing ecosystem and sadly its hdmi dominant.

    one time when I was presenting in class, my laptop only had displayport and I just stood there like a dumbass waiting for my files to be avail on a donor pc. Is dp superior? yeah, but the whole world is hdmi :[

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      8 hours ago

      I mean just about every computer and monitor supports DP, it’s only TVs that refuse to support it for some reason.

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        7 hours ago

        okay so from what ive searched up, hdmi standard was a collaberation between hitachi, panasonic, maxell, philips, silicon image, sony, vantiva, and toshiba. Furthermore it “won” the support from a lot of entertainment companies like universal, warner, and disney.

        ;_; so basically, even though they came together to make a universal system, they spent money on it and therefore need to make the most out of it. All other manufacturers just follow along.

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          7 hours ago

          Okay so they all come together to create a standard that they can then charge others to use. Brilliant.