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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (3 children)

DP is royalty free. Why are they looking for “yet another standard”

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Right where my mind went

[–] Jyek 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DP doesn't do power delivery and DP over thunderbolt doesn't deliver enough power for a display alone.

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

That last one isn’t entirely true. I have a portable monitor that does DP-Alt over USB-C and it is powered and driven via a single cable.

[–] Jyek 1 points 1 day ago

Small displays can be powered over thunderbolt but full features full sized displays cannot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Power delivery with higher bandwidth than USB?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Now the big question is how many patents are relevant and who owns them. And even if it turns out to have cheap licensing, beating HDMI won't be easy, as DisplayPort demonstrates. Technological superiority doesn't mean shit if you can't overcome HDMI's network effect.

[–] thatKamGuy 26 points 2 days ago

First rule of tech disruption is to ignore patents/laws and get a big enough footprint to be able to fend off the eventual litigation. Given this is China, they can mandate implementing it on mainland devices for the initial wave, and roll out later revisions into adjacent regions over time once it’s taken a foothold.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Just ask Betamax how technological superiority went against VHS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'll be all over it if it refuses to allow support for anything even remotely similar to HDCP.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"China"? Like, the government is making video cables now?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well... yeah. Every company in china is gov owned.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

whereas the government in USA is company owned

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Basically lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

that’s cool, and there’s even a USB-C version as well :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is not how standards work. Standards are standards because they are standard. Also, just use usb c, it does literally everything you need.

Edit: the article says theres a usbc compatible version, idk how thatll work but well see. Other thing, the article says hdmi doesnt have power but there are active devices that dont need power, how do those work then?

Edit2: yup i was right hdmi can cary 0.25 to 1.5w depending on version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nice, I guess 😃