• bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have never, ever had an HDMI cord, or a VGA cord for that matter, disconnect unintentionally. I haven’t turned those screws in years.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      I gave up on screwing VGA cables way before the turn of the century.

      I’ve had some disconnect unintentionally. What was never a big problem. But HDMI connectors are much tighter, and I don’t expect to ever see any disconnect. Ditto for DP.

      Anyway, the fact that if you pull a modern cable it will unplug is a feature, not a bug.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Anyway, the fact that if you pull a modern cable it will unplug is a feature, not a bug.

        I mean, a locking connector is also a feature. Just for a different market

  • CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    They do make HDMIs with locking screws, but no one really uses them as very few products have the screw holes for them.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    Also, VGA cables have no damn HDCP integrated, so you can pass anything you want with them, contrary to HDMI and DP which both have “anti piracy” protection integrated directly into the cable, for your inconvenience.

    In order to make a device that plays HDCP-enabled content, the manufacturer must obtain a license for the patent from Intel subsidiary Digital Content Protection LLC, pay an annual fee, and submit to various conditions. For example, the device cannot be designed to copy; it must “frustrate attempts to defeat the content protection requirements”; it must not transmit high definition protected video to non-HDCP receivers; and DVD-Audio works can be played only at CD-audio quality by non-HDCP digital audio outputs (analog audio outputs have no quality limits).

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And don’t forget HDMI’s useless encryption to protect from piracy, the HDCP.

      Your TV doesn’t support HDCP? Are you using some kind of convertor, HDMI switch, etc.? Shame. Worse case scenario, here’s an error message, buy a new TV hehe. Best case scenario: Here’s some 480p motherfucker.

      Oh, your TV does support HDCP. Cool. But it’s only HDCP 1.4. Our appliance requires HDCP 2.2.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also VGA: Don’t forget to unscrew both sides of me at the same time if you ever want to free me again.