Over the years, we’ve seen a good number of interfaces used for computer monitors, TVs, LCD panels and other all-things-display purposes. We’ve lived through VGA and the large variety o…
Anyway, yeah, HDMI was for “Home Theaters” and pushed by the industry that builds that kind of thing and DisplayPort is for computers, period.
Their featuresets reflect this well. It’s hard to declare one better than the other, because that depends entirely on the application. Some people think they would like a displayport-based home theater setup, but they don’t realize how many features HDMI has that they unknowingly rely on like auto lipsync, eARC, CEC, etc.
Right but couldn’t TVs at least give me a choice? I’d love like a single eARC HDMI port with like 3 display ports and the ability to pass through USB data… Can you imagine how bitching that TV would be?
I’m not sure what I would do with three displayport ports and only one HDMI, it would break my current setup. If you have a modern console, you want at least two HDMI ports (one for the console, the other for eARC) since VRR turns into a crapshoot when you put a reciever in between your console and your display.
Right now I basically have all my high bandwidth devices plugged straight into my TV and my low bandwidth devices plugged into my AVR. eARC, CEC, and auto lipsync all make sure this works relatively seamlessly, and I don’t have to worry about the fact that my AVR doesn’t support all the HDMI 2.1 bells and whistles.
Adding a DisplayPort port to my TV would be nice, since it would allow for higher bandwidth signals on GPUs that lack HDMI 2.1 ports.
True, currently would be a bit of a mess but can you imagine if consoles had a display port as well and you could pair a controller or keyboard or whatever directly to your TV and use it to pass through data to either a console or PC connected to it without having to change anything from it being able to use the TV as USB Bluetooth adapter.
Really I just seem to want a higher PC monitor as a TV I guess, but universal remotes could really be universal with a setup like that.
But it ends up being a huge overhaul of everything we currently have and with no easy single cable swap solution really for lots of devices. And therefore lots of people hating it and why we stay with HDMI for that and other reasons.
Their featuresets reflect this well. It’s hard to declare one better than the other, because that depends entirely on the application. Some people think they would like a displayport-based home theater setup, but they don’t realize how many features HDMI has that they unknowingly rely on like auto lipsync, eARC, CEC, etc.
Right but couldn’t TVs at least give me a choice? I’d love like a single eARC HDMI port with like 3 display ports and the ability to pass through USB data… Can you imagine how bitching that TV would be?
I’m not sure what I would do with three displayport ports and only one HDMI, it would break my current setup. If you have a modern console, you want at least two HDMI ports (one for the console, the other for eARC) since VRR turns into a crapshoot when you put a reciever in between your console and your display.
Right now I basically have all my high bandwidth devices plugged straight into my TV and my low bandwidth devices plugged into my AVR. eARC, CEC, and auto lipsync all make sure this works relatively seamlessly, and I don’t have to worry about the fact that my AVR doesn’t support all the HDMI 2.1 bells and whistles.
Adding a DisplayPort port to my TV would be nice, since it would allow for higher bandwidth signals on GPUs that lack HDMI 2.1 ports.
True, currently would be a bit of a mess but can you imagine if consoles had a display port as well and you could pair a controller or keyboard or whatever directly to your TV and use it to pass through data to either a console or PC connected to it without having to change anything from it being able to use the TV as USB Bluetooth adapter.
Really I just seem to want a higher PC monitor as a TV I guess, but universal remotes could really be universal with a setup like that.
But it ends up being a huge overhaul of everything we currently have and with no easy single cable swap solution really for lots of devices. And therefore lots of people hating it and why we stay with HDMI for that and other reasons.