• Natanael@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      You can make it sooo cursed lol.

      A KVM usually have circuitry that can handle a specific total bandwidth and a specific number of HDMI or DP ports (I’ve seen a few where using 2x 4K displays would disable the remaining ports until disconnected due to bandwidth).

      To make this work as expected for a KVM you need circuitry to handle all ports being used for either standard (expensive, lol), and have each physical port connected to I/O on both the HDMI and DP controller. Or support half and half, but connect each port to even more I/O ports and start doing switching…

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        8 months ago

        Unfortunately most get royalties from HDMI, so won’t endorse an alternative.

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            8 months ago

            This Is common on Lemmy.

            Systemic response to individual event

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            8 months ago

            Welcome to the world my guy. Little old me can’t change it, but I can express my desire for it. You will see a lot of people doing the exact same thing across many many topics, luckily the port on the back of a TV is hardly an important issue for me to take the time to campaign further.

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                8 months ago

                You are on a content aggregation site where people post opinions and discuss random crap, what are you expecting to see here???

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                  8 months ago

                  Calm down bud. I had no issue with the initial post, but the comment I replied to sounds like you’re trying to actually elicit change. My response was meant to make it clear that the general audience here agrees and you need to focus your efforts elsewhere.

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          8 months ago

          I thought they have to license the usage of HDMI so pay royalties to the HDMI foundation …

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            8 months ago

            Who do you think setup and owns the HDMI foundation?

            Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips etc…

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                8 months ago

                The TV manufacturers own the HDMI foundation.

                Other devices being “forced” to implement HDMI ports because every TV has them might benefit those TV manufacturers.

                Not sure how exactly that would work, I assume it gives them some level of control/power.

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                8 months ago

                If they’re profiting more than they’re paying for maintaining this standard as the default then they don’t want it to change

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                8 months ago

                Youve lost me, why would the TV manufacturers who get royalties from licensing HDMI want to offer a free alternative?