p1mrxA DisplayPort Port That You Can Plug HDMI Into
BombOmOmTIL that is a thing that exists and works!
More or less. Not very robust though.
NilzThis reminds me of the e-SATA port that was also a USB port.
eSATA seemed like it had potential but I can’t say I ever actually used it. I remember those ports, though. Might have a motherboard kicking around in storage with one.
ToriborThere was a brief period of time where eSATA was starting to show up and there were never enough USB 3 ports. eSATA would have been kind of handy but I’ve never used it either.
I used esata back in the day and I loved it. I had a second hard drive that I could plug into my laptop with all my games on it. This was back when SSDs were $1 per GB on a good day so 120GB SSDs were typical.
And even in the early days of USB 3 external HDDs were slow. It wasn’t until uasp became a thing that they didn’t suck outside of backing up large files.
I actually just bought a PCIe eSATA card to use with a 4 bay HDD enclosure. The ports kinda suck though
eSATAp! What a wild combination.
Not actually a terrible idea, even if it frequently was limited to powering 2.5" drives due to a lack of 12V. Some had extra contacts for that, but most that I saw didn't.
eSATAp. (The p is for power!)
You can add these ports to a PC. With help from the motherboard and power supply, they’ll support both USB and eSATA, including mechanical drives that need 12V power.
www.newegg.ca/…/17Z-00AT-00001
With the right cable, you can plug bare drives into them, which is convenient for backups, imaging, etc.
Or we can just use DisplayPort?
zelifcamPlease let all of the TV manufacturers know the plan.
Unfortunately most get royalties from HDMI, so won't endorse an alternative.
My point is that everyone says what you just said. But it’s not an answer and doesn’t solve the problem.
Welcome to the world my guy. Little old me can't change it, but I can express my desire for it. You will see a lot of people doing the exact same thing across many many topics, luckily the port on the back of a TV is hardly an important issue for me to take the time to campaign further.
that was weird
It’s called preaching to the choir. We are not your target audience.
You are on a content aggregation site where people post opinions and discuss random crap, what are you expecting to see here???
Calm down bud. I had no issue with the initial post, but the comment I replied to sounds like you’re trying to actually elicit change. My response was meant to make it clear that the general audience here agrees and you need to focus your efforts elsewhere.
This Is common on Lemmy.
Systemic response to individual event
LazaroFilmHow much royalties do they get per sold item? I’m happy to pay the difference.
I'm not sure the exact prices, probably varies with volume of products sold.
i thought it was for Digital Rights Management so that you can’t record copyright stuff in pure quality?
I don’t think so. As far as I can tell, HDMI uses the same HDCP as DVI and DisplayPort, so there shouldn’t be any difference when it comes to DRM.
So top comment means nothing
I thought they have to license the usage of HDMI so pay royalties to the HDMI foundation …
Who do you think owns and setup the HDMI foundation?
So? I dont follow, how does that change things?
If they’re profiting more than they’re paying for maintaining this standard as the default then they don’t want it to change
Youve lost me, why would the TV manufacturers who get royalties from licensing HDMI want to offer a free alternative?
tb_The TV manufacturers own the HDMI foundation.
Other devices being “forced” to implement HDMI ports because every TV has them might benefit those TV manufacturers.
Not sure how exactly that would work, I assume it gives them some level of control/power.
OK thanks for the explanation, I’m still a bit lost, but oh well ^^
jordanlundThe obvious difference is the shape of the connector in the port. The DP proper has a little “L” leg on it.
Can every KVM do this please?
You can make it sooo cursed lol.
A KVM usually have circuitry that can handle a specific total bandwidth and a specific number of HDMI or DP ports (I’ve seen a few where using 2x 4K displays would disable the remaining ports until disconnected due to bandwidth).
To make this work as expected for a KVM you need circuitry to handle all ports being used for either standard (expensive, lol), and have each physical port connected to I/O on both the HDMI and DP controller. Or support half and half, but connect each port to even more I/O ports and start doing switching…
You mean like a $500 level 1 techs KVM?
femboy_birdWait bringus has another channel? How did i not know this