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wkat424206/16/20251 replyview on HN

Yes though for monitors displayport is better anyway and it doesn't do hdcp.


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wolrah06/16/2025

DisplayPort has supported HDCP (as well as its own DRM scheme DPCP) since version 1.1.

I agree that DisplayPort was better for monitors, but HDMI has basically become DisplayPort so these days they're more or less two sides of the same coin. Both use data packets over fixed rate links now.

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