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7/6/2025, 6:03:48 AM
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Because HDMI is owned by a conglomerate of corporate entities with big skin in the home entertainment hardware game. Sony, Phillips, Hitachi, and Toshiba all have a stake in hdmi, and they all get royalties when the ports are used on devices. Anyone else who uses hdmi has to pay them to use it.
Display port is open source, so it's free to use since it was created by VESA to standardize monitor cables on one ubiquitous royalty free setup so the market could move away from the hodgepodge it had at the time of VGA/HDMI/DVI, etc.
tl;dr a cadre of big entertainment hardware companies profit off HDMI and won't let it die
Because HDMI is owned by a conglomerate of corporate entities with big skin in the home entertainment hardware game. Sony, Phillips, Hitachi, and Toshiba all have a stake in hdmi, and they all get royalties when the ports are used on devices. Anyone else who uses hdmi has to pay them to use it.
Display port is open source, so it's free to use since it was created by VESA to standardize monitor cables on one ubiquitous royalty free setup so the market could move away from the hodgepodge it had at the time of VGA/HDMI/DVI, etc.
tl;dr a cadre of big entertainment hardware companies profit off HDMI and won't let it die
7/3/2025, 7:18:17 PM
7/1/2025, 11:57:34 AM
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