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[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

"We need to develop a one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases."

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.world 66 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 weeks ago

At least one person got the joke. 😁

It exists. It’s Display Port.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The use case of "make a shit ton of money licensing a proprietary standard" is kind of mutually exclusive with other use cases. It would be hard to cover.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

At the time, there were too many standards. But looking back from today, we see that standardization does eventually occur, it just takes time.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They did, it was displayport. HDMI actively removes features the TV makers don't want you to have.