Open source

>open source
>royalty free
>better than hdmi, dvi, vga
>quality sound and video

What went wrong?

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Nothing? Most new PCs/GPUs you buy today have mostly DP and maybe 1 HDMI/DVI/VGA connector

It doesnt have copyright protection so it wasnt endorsed by the big media corps.

It's always the sociopaths. Always.

CIA

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How is it better than HDMI? Genuinely curious

That clippy thing can be annoying, if someone tugs on the cable too hard the whole thing can be ripped apart.

Something about more picture datas per time unit running through the cable

No built in DRM, higher resolution support on earlier revisions, and really novel features like daisy chain support for large arrays of monitors.

something about supporting higher resolutions more fps but i think newer HDMI revisions compete

Useless if most monitors don't

100 dollar monitors don't need the features DP has... why would they include a port that 90% of commonplace users will ignore?

Nothing. It's a good standard.

Most monitors with respect for themselves do. Don't buy a shitty cheapass 100 dollar Acer monitor where you're paying 90% of the monitor's price for HDMI royalties and you're good.

>dual monitors
>turn off monitors
>rearranges desktop symbols
>it's a DP feature :^)

>try to boot into bios
>display stays black
>apparently DP has a problem displaying low resolutions :^)

Epic

>apparently DP has a problem displaying low resolutions :^)

Nah, that's just a shitty mobo. Gigabyte by any chance?

MSI

>cables can't be longer than 6 feet
>faggot hinge that makes it hard to detach from monitor when the clip button thingy is against the monitor's back

Yeah im gonna stick with HDMI

>unplug DP cable
>plug DP cable back in
>all desktop icons are in random places

who even orchestrated this shit. Life with DVI was much simpler

You do that : ^ )

daily reminder that DisplayPort has cable versions, do you use DP 1.4 on your graphic card? You need a DP 1.4 cable

HDMI is just a cable, you can use a 5 year old cable with HDMI 2.0 if you want, no problem.

DisplayPort is money grabbing greedy DLC addon exploitation

Stop describing Windows features. DP has nothing to do with this.

Install a DE that respects your preferences or stop whining.

Then 90% of people probably don't need those features in the first place

>Stop describing Windows features. DP has nothing to do with this.
I don't have this problem with HDMI

this is a Windows feature and has nothing to do with DisplayPort.

2/10 for making me respond.

>you can use 5 year old cable with HDMI 2.0 if you want, no problem.

eeeeeerrrrrrrr your mileage will hugely vary.

That statement has no information.

All modern Dell monitors have at leart two DP inputs.

Dell monitors are crap!

Oh no!

It's actually the fault of the monitor. Dell monitors are known for this.

> Monitors re-arrange desktop icons

Sup Forums in 2017 everybody. . .

>most monitors don't

[citation needed]

See Anyway, it seems like some cards have DP and some monitors have DP so what's the problem? Did anything actually went wrong?

DP is the new de facto standard

HDCP is a terrible approach to copy protection and a colossal failure all around. shouldn't take long before even the old white men of Hollywood figure this out.

Daisy chain is particularly great. even allows you to partition a single display into multiple devices.

90% of users would be fine with RCA input. HDMI literally only sells because it has HD in the name.

>Life with DVI was much simpler
I'm still living that Win 7 on sandy bridge over DVI life

sony

The Display Port signal is also pretty cheap and easy to convert to other signals so converters are really cheap.

Yeah, a friend build a 3x3 1080p monitor with just a few DP and they response equally without problems and is nice to see at.

90% of users fell for the HD meme. And the DP fags seem to be the ones who fell the hardest

It is out there and is being used. Everything went right

>And the DP fags seem to be the ones who fell the hardest

What are you even trying to say?

Muh quality

>OP's post
>retarded content
>doesn't know what he's talking about
>assumes things

What went wrong?

i still use dual DVI with a 970 and a kabylake i7 because im a piece of shit with piece of shit monitors and a lack of hdmi cables

actually would hdmi be beneficial over DVI? i have no clue but id be willing to switch my main 1080p monitor to hdmi if it is

>easy to convert to other signals so converters are really cheap
Even to HDMI?
Because a DP to HDMI adapter cost 20$.

>Even to HDMI?
Yes, webshops just like to take a high margin on cables and accessoires.

I use this one: aliexpress.com/item/converter/32449119805.html

Does this allow multiple monitors?

I don't think so but I've never had more than one cable plugged in at once.

>max length 3m

Release button on the wrong side is a monitor manufacturer fuckup, not a problem with DP, dipshit.

Hello there! You seem to have used the term "open source".
The term "open source" was created by a group of people that did not want to be associated with the free software movement. When I say "free" software (which is one of the alternatives preferable to "open source"). It's not about price; in that case I would say "gratis", or "free as in free beer". It's about "freedom"! This is what the free software movement is fighting for.
So what is "free" software? Free software is any software that guarantees the user the four essential software freedoms:
> 0. Run the program as you wish.
> 1. Study the source code and change it so it does what you wish.
> 2. Redistribute exact copies of the program.
> 3. Distribute your modified version of the program.
Some people decided that they wanted to restrict the user; but being able to study and modify the "open source" code is not enough! This is directly hurting the cause of the free software movement because it takes away the sociological "freedom" aspect of free software and turns it into a technological one.
So for those reasons I ask that in the future you use the terms "free", "free/libre" or, if necessary "FLOSS" (short for "free/libre and open source"), though the latter should still be avoided.

Nothing went wrong, i'm using it right now

HDMI has HD in the name.
DisplayPort is abbreviated as DP. Go figure.

Because 5 connectors are so much simpler than a single connector, right?

The fact it rearranges my desktop if I turn one off.

It's sad that there are almost no tvs with dp, just like any tv doesn't have gb ethernet port in 2017.
Guessing it's the lack of built-in drm that scare off big companies to include this option.

>a challenger appears

currently supports 12gb/s (soon to be 24gb/s)
cable runs upto 100m
8-ch uncompressed audio
completely drm/hdcp-free
royalty-free
locking connector
one fucking wire

I use two 1440p dells chained with multi stream transport over displayport on windows 7 and never had any issue like that

That's your window manager, not the DisplayPort.

>lack of built-in drm
Yup. Wouldn't want people to shill you out of shekels by, say, recording screen output while watching movies they paid for.

Nice, but the connector looks pretty bulky which is a turn-off for normies.

it's the same size as a standard antenna plug, but if that ain't to your liking there's a micro version which is smaller than a wifi antenna connector.
also it's 16ch audio, not 8

Color-coded and don't require flipping, so easier

im with vga.
because it just works

Oh right standard coax, for some reason I thought that was like 5 pin MIDI connector sized. Looks like it'll be more expensive to manufacture in bulk though, compared to "flat" connectors.

Open standard so 90% of them will be super chinkshit and cause issues unless you shell out for a VESA certified one

SDI makes me wet. I don't understand why it never caught on.

Besides it being a pain to unfasten.

sure it takes some machining to make the plugs/sockets, but they exist in bulk lots for cheap and the cable is any half-decent 75ohm coax you care to use

>old white men of Hollywood

""""white"""

it never caught on because they can't licence it/enforce drm.
it's ubiquitous in the broadcast/cinema industry, where hdmi stands for "hardly dependent, mostly intermittent"

Still more expensive than TP. I'm not sure how much more annoying soldering (or crimping) coax connectors is compared to flat ones but I'd imagine it requires slightly more complex machinery, increasing production cost and chance of errors.

you need wire strippers and a crimping tool.
i work with a guy who's fulltime job is building sdi/land cables and patching racks.
takes him about 10 seconds to crimp a bnc connector.
you're 20 times more likely to fuck up a DP/hdmi cable than an sdi cable

You do realize that crimping that shit by hand is much more expensive, error-prone and slower than automating the task, right?

... Why does a fucking cable need copy protection?

>hdmi
>any cable will work for most applications and you will wind up with far more than you know what to do with just off of bundle-ins
>dp
>cables are of insanely varying quality and even if you have a dp monitor the cable that came with it will be one of the cheap shit tier ones and you will have to buy a cable 3x the price of an HDMI one to not get screwed by non-compliant manufacturers
>even manufacturers you think you could probably trust aren't safe because they'll do shit like make cables that carry power for absolutely no reason which can fuck your parts
>random shit like and will happen if either your cable or your hardware itself don't comply with everything, which companies don't care about unlike hdmi

No built in DRM means DP will never be used for a TV and the objectively inferior connection will remain standard
How is this a good thing?

Kek

The connector are rated for more than a few inseetions

Resolutions change = windows panic = icon panic

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>Created at the time first 4k monitors came out. >Cant support 4k 60hz let alone 144hz. no vision about the future Obsolete on the drawing board, open source freetards being open source freetards as always.
>DVI on the other hand can push 1600p at the time it was created 1200p was the max resolution of any monitor.

DP problem is that it tried to be HDMI and PC monitor interface at the same time failing at both fields. At the time it was launched it was already obsolete. Right now it does nothing more than HDMI 2.0 the standard it have to change. If you create video standard TODAY it have to push 12k at 60hz and 8k at 144hz just to be relevant in the next 10 years.

>brand new TV
>supports SCART
>doesn't support DisplayPort
why is this fucking allowed again?

Shitty plug.

My 1.3 cable works with hdmi 2.0. It costed ~22$, the cheapo ones probably can't do it.

Literary my 120 dollar monitor has DisplayPort

>What went wrong?
Something went wrong? Do you live in Nigeria or something?

Last four generations of graphics cards and 3 different monitors I have bought over the last years all had DP.

>Shitty plug.

Literally the only problem with DP. Actually, I don't like how thick the cables are - I have an HDMI cable that's about as thick as a 3.5mm audio cable. Flexible, small, super easy to route, easy to hide. My DP cable feels more like a coax cable tv cable; tough and hard to flex.

Cable aside, it's objectively superior to HDMI. Higher resolution, free-sync, actually supports 144Hz.

>le ebin "displayport is royalty-free" meme
because OP has been living under a rock for the last 5 years:
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Protput.

Because SCART is the gold standard stay mad fat lord yank

>mfw my chinkshit tv has no HDCP at all but after 10 or so seconds the film works anyway

I guess they somehow got rid off it by Amazon?

HDMI feels to me like RCA and Displayport feels like BNC. They both are capable of transmitting the same signal, but because BNC is used more by people higher than consumers, it feels like BNC feels like it's better,and the locking mechanism feels cool.

literally jews

No benefit whatsoever unless you want to use built in monitor speakers.

Seems like it's catching on to me.

Two years ago I had never even heard of DisplayPort.

Now all the workstations in my office are using DP connected monitors, the GPU in my home PC has 3 DP ports and 1 HDMI.

Absolutely incorrect. Please refer directly to DisplayPorts website.

The DisplayPort on my 2560x1440 144hz monitor causes it to not wake from sleep after my computer hibernates.
My only option is HDMI, but it only outputs at 60hz.
Is there anything I can do? Is HDMI just shittier?

Sounds like your graphics card, not your cable.

or its a bad cable, not the TYPE of cable
could be a bad port on your monitor or vid card too.

What monitor is it?

Dell S2716DGR.
It's one of two monitors I will eventually have for a dual monitor setup. The second monitor (when I get around to ordering it) will be a Dell UltraSharp U2717D.