All manufacturers of Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cables have been notified this week that their products are illegal and should be recalled. HDMI Org says all DP male-to-HDMI male connectors are unlicensed as they are out of HDMI spec. DisplayPort is a popular system on Apple Macs, and is also used by some Dell monitors and Toshiba notebooks. Notes HDMI Org (via TR): The HDMI specification ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by hearme0:"HDMI is based on legacy CRT raster-scan architecture. DisplayPort is designed for modern flat-panel displays and PC chipsets. DisplayPort has a micro-packet architecture with low voltage signaling that more easily enables networked displays. In the future, DisplayPort will also allow daisy chaining displays at full graphics performance, including 3D. and content protection. Today's USB-based daisy-chaining solutions do not support high performance 3D graphics or protected content.
On another note......"Display Port (DP)" is just the stupidest F'ing
thing/idea ever! Kinda like the Penny......LOSE IT NOW!
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HDMI Org does say they agree there is a need for these kind of cables, but they do not see how to make someone pay them for this anytime soon.
Originally posted by KillerBug:I make my own cables when it is possible. Have all the tools to do so.
This isn't about lack of bribes...HDMI is the standard right now, and they will fight hard to prevent something better from gradually replacing it. The best way to do this? Block the cables that allow you to connect a new displayport monitor/TV to your existing components, and block the cables that allow you to connect a new displayport video card to an old HDMI monitor/TV.
I have a solution.
Instead of selling the cables as, "HDMI to DisplayPort", they need to make a new variant of HDMI...some tiny change like making the pins 0.001MM longer than spec (and then making the tolerances of the new spec all negative, so they overlap HDMI tolerances ranges except for that last 0.001MM). Then they could make up their own name for it, and in the product pages there could be a big thing that says, "This cable is not approved for HDMI connections, but it works like a charm anyway"
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:Not so; restricting access to BIOS over HDMI or DVI is part of the HDCP agreement, and is designed into every card.
It's not syncing with low resolution. That's why you do not see anything while booting.
You need a monitor that can...
Jeff
Originally posted by KillerBug:Agree:
This isn't about lack of bribes...HDMI is the standard right now, and they will fight hard to prevent something better from gradually replacing it.....
Originally posted by Blessedon:If you buy from WalMart, then you are a part of the problem...it does not matter if you complain about them or not. I don't buy from WalMart, I don't buy from Sony, I don't buy from Kellogg's. I don't support corporations who break laws and exploit customers in broad daylight...if you support those who are systematically destroying the american way of life, you are no better than an Al Qaeda supporter as far as I'm concerned.
Watch TV shows by cable on the flat-screen at night;
in the morning gripe about Hollywood, cable companies, and manufacturers.
Drive to Wal-mart for food in the morning;
at night gripe about gas prices, big corporations, and food safety.
and on and on....
To gripe about something and do it anyway is...well, pick an adjective.
Originally posted by KillerBug:your damn Right about that!!!
Originally posted by Blessedon:If you buy from WalMart, then you are a part of the problem...it does not matter if you complain about them or not. I don't buy from WalMart, I don't buy from Sony, I don't buy from Kellogg's. I don't support corporations who break laws and exploit customers in broad daylight...if you support those who are systematically destroying the american way of life, you are no better than an Al Qaeda supporter as far as I'm concerned.
Watch TV shows by cable on the flat-screen at night;
in the morning gripe about Hollywood, cable companies, and manufacturers.
Drive to Wal-mart for food in the morning;
at night gripe about gas prices, big corporations, and food safety.
and on and on....
To gripe about something and do it anyway is...well, pick an adjective.
Originally posted by IguanaC64:Sounds like your video card doesn't fully support the HDMI standard. I have a Radeon HD5870 and I can see POST and interact with the BIOS setup menu just fine.
I thought it would be convenient to use a HDMI cable from my video card to my monitor as my primary video/audio cable. It works, but you can never see your bios post...you have to kind of take it for granted that your computer is booting because no video shows up until after the login screen comes up (was a real pita when I upgraded my bios and my machine quit booting because the new bios wanted to boot from the wrong hard drive by default...had to go fish out an old monitor I had laying around to fix it...bios would never display via HDMI).
My wife has a 3' hdmi cable and she gets all sorts of weird video artifacts. Never had these issues with VGA/DVI cables (even cheap ones).
Going back to DVI...HDMI is just not workable as a computer cable.
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