• @Bronco1676@lemmy.ml
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        121 year ago

        At least it is royality free compared to HDMI which has a large annual fee + per unit fee for manufacturers

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          81 year ago

          Oh. It’s absolutely superior on the royalties side. Just incredibly frustrating that what should be an open standard that anyone can tinker with is not.

          • It’s at least partially because the specification was designed to detect and thwart attempts to tee the video and audio data in order to bypass copy protection on DVDs and Blu-Rays, iirc.

            • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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              41 year ago

              It is indeed and the fact that I don’t care about any of that makes it that much more frustrating. I got bored with piracy nearly two decades ago and just want to implement my own open-source virtual display systems in hardware and gateway I shouldn’t need to either cough up thousands of dollars a year or find a copy of a PDF that someone “accidentally” left at a public location in order to do so with an established protocol standard.

    • @harmsy@lemmy.world
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      271 year ago

      Accidental DisplayPort guy checking in. I didn’t even know it was a thing until I bought my graphics card. It seems like I dummied my way into some good tech.

      • KnoLord
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        121 year ago

        sadly not, but GPUs (at least those I used) do not support that over HDMI as well, which is kinda frustrating :/