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virgin HDMI vs chad VGA (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 months ago by calango@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 49 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The primary design goal of VGA was to display video. The primary design goal of HDMI was to prevent the display of video.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

displayport is the modern successor to vga.

[–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wish DisplayPort would become the standard already. It's superior in every way.

HDMI is the microUSB of the video world and I wish it would die already in lieu of DP and USB-C/ThunderBolt.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's superior in every way.

Not every way, it doesn't do audio. That's really the only downside.

[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's incorrect. DP has had audio (up to 8 channels, 24bit@192kHz) since 1.0, nowadays it supports up to 32 channels and 1536kHz sample rate. Wikipedia has the official standards PDFs linked.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

I stand corrected

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

HMDI can also do ethernet, which is very convenient. If you have two devices that support it.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

And pass remote control inputs

[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Why not USB C? It can carry a DP signal and (obviously) do all the USB stuff you'd ever need too.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port's supporting technology is holding everyone back.

[–] Narauko@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Every time I notice I cannot use my full refresh rate over the HDMI on my 7900xtx in Linux because of licencing issues, I get rationally pissed off.