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This really bothers me. Closed standards locked behind a licensing fee may as well not be standards at all, in my opinion.
I don't understand why any hardware uses HDMI anymore anyway, what does it have that displayport doesn't?
Decades of being the standard in a/v. That's like asking, why don't we get rid of gas stations and just install electric chargers? Well, everybody's got gas powered cars.
AV things sure since they stick around longer, but computers? When was the last time you saw a high end GPU with VGA or DVI? And they already usually have mostly DisplayPort with just one or two HDMI ports
Well, I wasn't referring to that ecosystem. That ecosystem is already on display port. The reason HDMI is so prevalent is because it's the standard in audio-visual equipment. Why would I talk about computer equipment when it's not the standard there?
The point still stands. Everybody has equipment that has HDMI, and to phase out that standard in equipment going forward is phasing out equipment people already own.
And where's the problem in that? My parents still use a soon 20 years old plasma tv. But they're getting old too.
Computers are AV things.
Today. Every time I go downstairs.
HDMI only had about four good years to itself before DisplayPort showed up. In contrast, the RCA port stuck around for damn near 100 years.
We also didn't have digital signals till DVI in 1999, HDMI in 2002 and display port in 2006