If something becomes important or necessary, the entire document would be leaked, or relevant sections documented. Thank you Scihub and libgenesis.
The more likely outcome is the specification will become its last version. If the spec isn’t open, people will implement it, but poorly. This will lead to gross incompatibly, and force people to default to known good legacy standards. For reference, see USB 3.0+.
HDMI is already USBified. Most of the headline features of 2.1 are just making the 2.0 features mandatory, but introducing another set of optional features.
I feel like HDMI is dead anyway since USB-C. Not only do I get display port over it, it powers my laptop and lets me use the same mouse + headset for whatever laptop I happen to be using.
Not yet but now that there's so much overlap between the two, it's possible one will try to undercut the other. When you're producing tens of million of devices, a small pricing advantage of one over the other can move the needle. The biggest strength of HDMI now is going to be how many other existing AV devices there are that only support HDMI.
Screens will probably get new ports, but I seriously doubt HDMI ports on new screens will be removed before the VGA ports are. New TV's still have SCART connectors.
According to another comment here, display port is OSS! Ive always liked it more anyways since it has like 2x the bandwidth IIRC, like 80Gbps. So almost any displayport 2.0 cable/connector pair can do fast refresh rates at high res. In contrast HDMI is confusing with weird versioning numbers.
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The more likely outcome is the specification will become its last version. If the spec isn’t open, people will implement it, but poorly. This will lead to gross incompatibly, and force people to default to known good legacy standards. For reference, see USB 3.0+.
HDMI is already USBified. Most of the headline features of 2.1 are just making the 2.0 features mandatory, but introducing another set of optional features.
It's not. Documents are only available for VESA members.
Who is they? And last I checked, displayport is very much supported in PC hardware.
The AMD card before that and the Nvidia card in my other desktop have a similar number (one HDMI, two or more DisplayPorts)
I'm curious too.