> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shirley Márquez > Dúlcey > > DisplayPort never really caught on with > anybody other than Apple, and it strikes me as a standard that has no > good reason for existence; what technical advantage does it have over > the more widely adopted HDMI? (I'm prepared to be enlightened if it > actually has one.)
What, you mean like firewire vs usb? Like thunderbolt vs usb3 or 10Ge or 6Gb eSATA or any other low-cost high speed bus? I love the marketing sham of the thunderbolt cable with chips inside of it. Because supposedly that's necessary in order to get 10Gbit across the link... ;-) Like a Cat 6 cable, or an eSATA cable for $6. ;-) Yes, there is a reason for the existence of these things. Apple makes more money if consumers believe there is a reason to buy them... So it doesn't matter if there is any actual benefit... It's marketing. Just like so many of their other products. FWIW, I just looked it up, and HDMI can transport 10Gbit just like thunderbolt. There's some sort of 8/10 encoding overhead, I suppose that must be error detection, so the actual payload is 8Gbit. This includes (I forget now) ~34 Mbit for audio or something like that. And supports resolutions up to 4k x 2k Oh, here's the perfect example. This is a 10ft cable that supports 4k x 2k, and 10Gbit. Goes for $4.97. You can clearly see that Apple would not make any money selling something that competes with this. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=102 4008&p_id=3993&seq=1&format=2 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
