My instinct wasn't for the cable snapping but to be afraid of the wall giving out
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*Don't look at me or I'll ~~disconnect~~ break
I work in pro AV and I freaking hate HDMI. Causes so many problems and to some extent there's really no avoiding it either unless your running really high end gear.
Also, VGA cables have no damn HDCP integrated, so you can pass anything you want with them, contrary to HDMI and DP which both have "anti piracy" protection integrated directly into the cable, for your inconvenience.
In order to make a device that plays HDCP-enabled content, the manufacturer must obtain a license for the patent from Intel subsidiary Digital Content Protection LLC, pay an annual fee, and submit to various conditions. For example, the device cannot be designed to copy; it must "frustrate attempts to defeat the content protection requirements"; it must not transmit high definition protected video to non-HDCP receivers; and DVD-Audio works can be played only at CD-audio quality by non-HDCP digital audio outputs (analog audio outputs have no quality limits).
Oh, that's worked remarkably well. Piracy is a thing of the past, and we all live in peace and harmony, with happiness and justice for all, thanks to the undefeated copyright protections afforded by the heroes at DCP LLC.
Hurrah.
Wait, seriously?!
Displayport is great too
Yup. My DP cables at the back of my monitor are great, but the HDMI or USB-C flicker of I so much as touch a different cable that nudges them
Neither can do 144hz HD so fuck em both.
uhhh HDMI can't?
No idea why you’re getting downvoted. HDMI 2.1 supports 10-bit 4k 144hz with no stream compression. So the answer, unequivocally, is that yes it can.
DisplayPort 1.4 requires DSC (stream compression) to do the same. DisplayPort 2.0/2.1 supports higher bandwidth but it is not common on displays at this point in time.
People have other understandable reasons for preferring DisplayPort over HDMI (Open vs. closed standards), but there is no disputing the fact that HDMI currently outclasses DisplayPort in terms of bandwidth and thus the limits of what kind of signals it can carry.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Every time I look up HDMI vs DP it seems they are basically exactly the same. One of them is always sightly ahead in some niche regard - they keep leapfrogging each other, so maybe now HDMI is in the lead but soon enough DP will overtake it - but in 99.9% of real world use cases they are basically the same thing. They're both plug-and-play, easy to use and will get you the best picture quality your hardware can show you. It doesn't matter what you use. (But use DP if you can because it's nicer)
Heck, you can send DP signals over HDMI cables and vice versa. It's all a sham!
4 year old phone with usb-c whole full of dust: i must be in a perfect vacuum with no direct sunlight
Me: “Computer, I’m licking two paperclips that I’ve stuck into the vga port. I’d like to taste the rainbow. Send video to the port, please?”
Computer: “Sure thing boss!”
Me: “Alright, now, can I put my presentation on this projector over hdmi?”
Computer: “No fuck you, hdmi protocol negotiation failed, and I’m scrambling your audio outputs for the rest of the day too”
This reminds me about USB Type C with screws.
Might be venomous
Gold is the best transistor for electricity or whatever, but I have my doubts on this one.
Honestly, copper is a better conductor than gold, which is why you wouldn't want to make the whole cable out of gold (ignoring price). It works for the connectors because it doesn't oxidize like copper does which means that the connection between the device and cable will be better.
You MIGHT notice a difference between a gold connector and a normal one with an analog signal, but once you have a digital signal like HDMI, the cable will either work or not. You won't get a signal degradation like you would with a RCA cable, it just shuts out.
That being said, I have seen gold connector on the fiber TOSLINK cables too. I'm sure those made the light go SO much faster. /s
HDMI was a mistake that never should have happened.
And don't forget HDMI's useless encryption to protect from piracy, the HDCP.
Your TV doesn't support HDCP? Are you using some kind of convertor, HDMI switch, etc.? Shame. Worse case scenario, here's an error message, buy a new TV hehe. Best case scenario: Here's some 480p motherfucker.
Oh, your TV does support HDCP. Cool. But it's only HDCP 1.4. Our appliance requires HDCP 2.2.
What in the goddamn? Never buying any HDMI-only device, fuck HDMI.
display port gang!
DP with locking tabs gang
DDWG gang! I mean DVI gang. RIP DDWG.
SDI gang represent!
SDI only does SMPTE timing, tho
Anybody else think USB-C connector is even worse? Seems so flimsy...
still somewhat better than micro usb...
I specifically do not like USBC because it's flimsy as fuck. Every device I've had that used USB-C so far has had the PCB inside the port break off after a few years because it wiggles around too much. MicroUSB would eventually get super loose and not really stay in, but it never fully broke anything off inside the damn port.
I don't like USB-C because different cables have different functions and there is no standard to let you know what is what, so you just have to hope you don't get them confused. A color code or something would have worked.
I had too many micro USB slots die on me. That also killed my beloved Nokia N900.
We never should have ventured beyond mini USB.
Basically everything I have is type C now because I only want one kind of cord to worry about, but mini USB will always have my heart
I was just saying the other day to one of my friends that I have never had a USB-C port fail on me in anyway.
Two sides of a coin I guess.
Allow me to introduce to you the greatest connector since VGA:
this is actually a part of type c spec btw
there's also a single screw version
Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
I really don't miss DB15. Too many times when disconnecting, one of the standoffs would come unscrewed. Then you have to shut down, take the side off of your case, find the stupid nut, then screw the standoffs back in. Only finger tight, though, so it would all happen again the next time. 😆
The first 2 computer repair shops I worked at both had nut-setters that someone had ground down on so they could be used to tighten or replace the screw bosses on a female VGA connector.
Kind of a pain in the dick honestly… but I can confirm that it was entirely possible to drag a full sized tower off a workbench by the VGA cable ;-)
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