DisplayPort vs. HDMI Time to argue and fight, autists

We need 7 more standards just so finding the right cable can be even more confusing

Freedom vs Tyranny

Does not make you think.

>>62352984
Displayport if it's possible/available, hdmi for everything else.

>>62352984
>HDMI supports audio
>DP doesn't
Gee I don't know which one is better, very hard question

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>>62353185
lol wut

Maybe one day someone will make a wireless image transfer protocol

>>62352984
DisplayPort for Computers.
HDMI for home entertainment.

VGA

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>>62353185

>>62353185
>DP doesn't support audio
- that normies actually think.

let me guess: because it's called "display" port?

>>62353355
>USB

Why have I never seen USB over displayport?

That would actually be quite handy.

DP makes a satisfying click when you plug it in
also muh freesync

>>62353410
Wait is does? My Displayport monitor has a USB hub but I have it plugged in with a USB type-B to work

Well.................
Everyone I know has and knows what HDMI is

Only 1 person I know has and knows what display port is

>>62353470
Well according to >>62353355

I was also surprised.
I also use an extra USB cable for my monitor, despite using DP.

>>62353572
>>62353470
>>62353410

Maybe the USB port can send data directly to the computer via DP? I don't own one myself, but I would assume some monitor could use this tech to integrate a HUB in a screen for whatever reasons

>>62353606
It's not like Thunderbolt where it can access system RAM directly (huge security hole but whatever)

It would be part of the standards.
And both the monitor and the video card would have to support it.
Same as with audio over display port, but that has wide adaptation but I've never seen USB over display port.

I even have a big touch screen that needs a USB cable to send the touch commands to the computer.
Would have been ideal if it worked with just a single DP cable instead.

>>62352984
I'd say DP is better, though in practice when using Windows with most monitors its supremely stupid behavior of completely removing DP monitors and rearranging windows when a DP monitor is turned off or switched to a different input is very aggravating. Out of 3 monitors I have, only one of them doesn't do this shit, so the other 2 are using HDMI 2.0 and good ol' DVI, despite all 3 of them having DP.

>>62353470
Just because DP supports USB doesn't mean the feature is actually used in practice.

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>>62352984
DP plug looks neat, HDMI not.

>>62353773
>Thunderbolt can access system RAM directly
What the fuck

The real question is why are DP cables so fucking expensive when I can just go down to the 99¢ store and grab an HDMI? What's even worse is DP to HDMI cables.

>>62353873
It's really external PCIe.

Just as any internal PCIe card can access RAM directly, so can Thunderbolt.

>>62353773
I just found something on the internet about USB-C integrating DisplayPort. Maybe the author of the Wikipedia page had a confusion.

I honestly have no idea how DP works, I was not really particulary intersted in DP since it wasn't really a standard yet when I learnt about it. It does seems interesting today.

>Thunderbolt can access system RAM
Holy shit for that.

>>62353568
marketing hype should not drive decisions

if anything needs to be changed, it's your friends. theyre overly ignorant

>>62353992
Interesting. Does that mean you could use a thunderbolt port to connect any PCIe card to a desktop or laptop?

>>62353410
>>62353470
>>62353572
>>62353606

It's only USB 2.0(well as of DP 1.2), which is why most monitors have the hub that needs to plug directly into the computer. Maybe it will change with DP over USB3(DP-to-USB-C connectors)

>>62353023
kek'd

>>62354299
Yes, you can buy adapters, look into the razer core and other products

>>62353290
any ideas as to why they haven't already? I've always thought it to be too much effort learning exactly how display protocols work to figure out why for myself

DP > DVI > VGA >>>>>>>>>> HDMI

>>62354418
Huge bandwidth and need for additional hardware
Not to mention signal problems etc

DVI

>>62354387
Neato, thanks anon

>>62352984
DP because it can convert to basically any of the previous connector standards AND hdmi reliably

Every adapter I've used to convert HDMI to VGA has shat the bed after 2 months

>>62354418
I would imagine it's largely an issue of practicality. Display connections are uncompressed (so far) and use huge amounts of bandwidth. They also require precise timing, very low latency and top-notch reliability: you wouldn't want your display connection to 'hiccup' and blank your screen for a second. Wireless is not conducive to those requirements. Even if you could get the bandwidth, getting it to work reliably without being error-prone, fragile and also having long enough range to be useful would be very difficult and most certainly a huge waste of money and hardware.

Then there's the issue of a practical use case not really existing. The monitor is invariably going to be close to the PC, connecting it with a short, cheap and reliable cable is trivial. Monitors don't tend to be moved around a lot either. Wireless display connectivity would simply be largely useless since it would most definitely not have sufficient range and obstacle penetration to do something actually useful, say like connecting to a TV 2 rooms away while preserving lossless quality.

>tl;dr: it's hard to do and useless in practice

>>62353324
This is the right answer.

>>62354418
because it's not needed, 1 cable run will do the job and you can already display mirror. Just more interference to add to the huge shitstorm that wireless equipment has to deal with as it is

>>62352984

Displayport = computer mointors

HDMI = A/V equipment

/thread

>>62356189
You're late, dude.
See >>62353324

Also is autistic to /thread yourself.

>>62352984
I had to switch from DP to HDMI because for some reason when turning off my screens the computer behaved like if I had physically disconnected the cable, causing my window order and desktop icons to get all fucked.

Had this issue on two graphics cards with two different screens, which is why I'll probably never touch DP again.

>>62354597
This, it lacks the (((protected path))).

>>62352984
DisplayPort is better.

>>62353185
Are you dumb? Displayport supports everything that HDMI supports and more. It's also free to add to hardware because no licencing. The only thing HDMI have going for it is that it's more available.

>>62353185
DP doesn't support two way audio. That's about it. Dunno who needs to use a head set through their monitor

Can't get 144hz over hdmi.

>>62353324
This. It actually would help to normies to know what kind of monitor to get, if a 27 inch TV or a real monitor that has no controller (unless they are Korean panels, I have a korean one and fuck me, actually controllers are kinda useful even on monitor to configure the settings).

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>>62354418
>>62353290

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>>62352984

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>>62353290
What are you on about nvidia did that already?
>pic related GTX 460 WDHI