Quote Originally Posted by blindbox View Post
I don't get the hate for DisplayPort. Isn't it an open standard? There's no DRM, no royalty fee to pay for HDMI and has higher bandwidth compared to HDMI (and just a bit higher compared to DVI dual link).

Someone mentioned about latency, but googling doesn't help me find its relation to latency.
Quote Originally Posted by SoulsCollective View Post
HDMI has more than adequate "bandwidth" to carry digital data at resolutions even higher than what we consider "extreme" now (ie. 2560), and I didn't think anyone would call the ability to carry full 7.1 audio data over the same cable "useless" (DisplayPort has the same functionality anyway - would you call it useless in that context?). Furthermore, HDMI supports xvYCC, which we should all be using anyway.

But this isn't about HDMI><DP, this is about DP itself - the supporters are advocating it as "HDMI for your PC", which sounds neat, but the problem is the DRM - the number of consumer-level displays which are HDCP certified is tiny compared to the number of otherwise perfectly good displays that will be needlessly and pointlessly rendered useless if DP gains wide acceptance. If Big Content (R) and Big Beige Boxes (TM) get together and enforce this standard on us, we all lose.

The point is, it isn't needed, it isn't even desirable when ordinary DVI works just fine for even the highest resolutions available today, and really it has no purpose other than to restrict consumer rights and choice.
See Post #38 onwards for context.