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> headphones plugged into the monitor That sounds cool but I've never see a monitor with a jack. Mine all have many USB ports, but not audio. How common are they?
All the dell midrange monitors I've bought (IE, $400-$1K) have audio jack for headphones.
I wonder is it a regional thing (in EU)
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> Lots of people use/want HDMI to this day. I’d wager this is less about HDMI, and more about the fact that people want their old DP-less monitors to work.
Display port to HDMI cables exist.
With HDMI, I have both video and audio traveling over a single cable. That is _extremely_ convenient. DP _theoretically_ supports audio too, but AFAIK that's not widely implemented.
For some reason, outside of video, HDMI knows how to shoot themselves in the foot almost as well as the USB-IF. HDMI CEC? Has anyone actually got that working correctly? Anyone remember Ethernet over HDMI? Apparently that was a thing. (Not to be confused with HDMI over Ethernet, which actually has some uses.) HDMI for soundbars? We got ARC ports (Audio Return Channel). But it was buggy, didn't support lossless audio,…
I really really hope that my LG has a DisplayPort input. They do offer a monitor that is the same size and I believe the same panel, but the price increase does not really justify it. So sad that I have to bear with the hell of DP/USBc to HDMI converters...
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This is great, but then they drop the ball by forcing garbage (“interspersed stuffing symbols”) between the packets instead of letting you use that BW.
You are not giving the full picture in this trade. The people making the spec knew the trade well. You add a lot of complexity to a receiver by forcing it to generate its own timing information from whatever video signal is sent. That work has to be done somewhere and it is most robust when done at the source.
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This is great, but then they drop the ball by forcing garbage (“interspersed stuffing symbols”) between the packets instead of letting you use that BW.
I think that you can actually transmit audio, or other displays' signals (DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport), in place of stuffing symbols.
Be smart people!
They specifically mention 3 distinct DP connectors - standard, mini, USB-C - plus a bunch of Apple versions of them. That's NOT a feature and is exactly why I prefer HDMI. I don't care about most DP capabilities, I just want to plug in my stuff and have it work. I use 55" 4k TV for a monitor and it works, even with the open source AMD driver. I saw nothing in TFA to make me think DP would benefit me, even if some tec…
HDMI, Mini HDMI, Micro HDMI, USB HDMI Alt-mode and there are also some less popular ones.