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I'm using DisplayPort from now on instead of HDMI!
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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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Not everyone wants to watch a whole video. Could you tell us your point? As in why you're using DisplayPort instead of HDMI. For what reasons? What made you look into this? And so forth.
Honestly, with the hashtags included and the post body the same as the title, this looks less like a genuine post and more like a post trying to advertise a particular YouTube video.
I added the following to the original post: "This video does a great job at explaining why it is a much more open and less proprietary alternative, in addition to being technically to be preferred."
Do hashtags not work well on Lemmy?
All the more reason to avoid it then. I dislike shorts.
sigh
posting for others...
From what I learned about the video, HDMI is an organization that charges licensing fees for the port, logo, and revisions to be included in devices, charging between $5-$10,000/year for licensing plus per unit fees, and more for specific revision features, while Display port is just a connector/protocol with no licensing encumbering it, and supports all the HDMI features and more.
This is highlighted by the new Steam Machine from Valve where it includes both a display 1.4 port, and an HDMI 2.1 port, but the HDMI port isn't listed as a 2.1 port because it can't legally be licensed for Linux machines, so to get around this valve just didn't label it 2.1 even though it supports 2.1 capabilities.
The creator of the video is rightfully calling for the industry to shun and abandon HDMI as a port, and just use the royalty free and unencumbered display port.
I'm listening to music. I don't want to pause the music to listen to something that I could just read.
Other reasons I don't want to watch a video might include:
Also, YouTube.
I would be much more inclined to click if it were Odysee or PeerTube.
You need to give me a much more compelling reason than "I'm using DP instead of HDMI" to click on a YouTube link.