alt Hacker NewsWell, we are using much higher resolutions with much higher frame rates and with more media-rich content.
You surely agree that not having a good compression here is less than ideal.
And it begs the question whether this is indeed the task of the display manager, or it's packing an unrelated functionality that could be better solved by another software.
And we haven't even gotten to sound - should a display manager now suddenly also handle sound?
Of all the things that seem useful to conflate, audio and video does make sense to me, as they so often need to be synchronized. Hell: many monitors also support audio, all televisions do, and the cables used to connect them carry both signals.