• I used to think DisplayPort was the future, about 10-13 years ago.

    By now I feel it has come and gone.

    HDMI 2.1+ is making its way in everywhere.

    • It’s a better plug.
    • It tends to support enough pixels/Hz for most people.
    • It’s more ubiquitous, being on both TV’s laptops, and monitors.

    Pretty sure the PC desktop segment will keep the port alive for a while, but right now it doesn’t seem like a very useful port apart from having a plug that claws itself in place and is often unnecessarily hard to unplug.

    With Ultra High Speed HDMI (these names are ridiculous, seriously, look at the standard names) there’s very few, if any, reasons to use DP, apart from compliant HDMI cables costing an arm and a leg.

    To be honest I’m struggling a bit to understand why it’s not just all pushed through a CAT6/7 Ethernet cable at this point.

    • DisplayPort is a better system than HDMI. It even can ride piggy back on USB-C, which means a display can both power a computer on the same line as it connects to a laptop with. DisplayPort also supports daisy chaining(although it’s not a common feature on monitors), so you could potentially have a single USB-C cable going to a laptop and then have multiple monitors connected with needing a dock or anything of that sort.

      • The nicest part is you don’t HAVE to use a latching plug. Friction fit plugs are compliant with the standard, and they are available for sale. My Dell 1440p 165hz displays came with a very nice friction fit DisplayPort cable.

        https://a.co/d/eCiOkiN

        Latching connectors are better for permanent setups or commercial displays however, as they won’t wiggle themselves loose.

      • You can, but they’re hard to come by where I live at least. I have two, but they’re Mini DP to DP. So haven’t gotten to use them since I was running my 970 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        We also have 10-30 cables of each of the usual lengths in the IT supply room at the office, and they all have the same mechanism, no matter what manufacturer was chosen during purchasing.

        And then, once in a while, you come across a screen where the port is rotated 180 degrees so the push is between the plug and the back of the screen and you basically need child labor to unplug it in proper manner.

    • Just because it’s more ubiquitous doesn’t make it a better plug.

      DP 2.1 is technically superior to HDMI in many ways, especially since it’s the protocol that runs through USB C and supports daisy chaining, unlike HDMI which has to be converted to and from DP to be passed through USB C.

      I don’t see your argument with “it’s a better plug” either, the DisplayPort connector is available as a locking or non-locking connector, is keyed better than HDMI and in my experience is more solid.

      The only reason HDMI is as common as it is is because there’s a consortium putting money into it to keep it popular because they can charge license fees from manufacturers. DP is free to use and developed by VESA, the standard can be downloaded directly from their website and added to whatever device you’re developing with no need to license. HDMI charges licensing fees PER PORT, which is why you often see GPUs with one HDMI and three DPs.

      TL;DR: HDMI is only more common because a group has in its best financial interests to keep it popular, despite it playing catch-up with DP.

      • Never said DP wasn’t a better standard. Or that HDMI was better because of being ubiquitous.

        It’s certainly not keyed better than HDMI, that’s just ridiculous. If you ever had a laptop with Display Port, or see people interact with one, you would notice that it’s too similar to USB, e-sata (which has become mostly irrelevant, if not even fully), and HDMI.

        On top of that it’s difficult to feel if it’s the wrong way round. Easy to see, difficult to feel.

        DisplayPort is in practice not available as a non-locking connector, but keying and the locking connector makes it worse.

        While, sure, someone makes money off of HDMI, it’s not an argument for popularity.

        I never agreed with the facts of your comment, but I think you are using poor arguments to make an invalid point.

        I’m not arguing for HDMI either, btw. I’m just attempting to predict the future.