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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• otto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  USB-C is already a plug standard for display port over thunderbolt

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But its DP implemented within USB, vs an actual DP. There’s a latency there which might matter for online realtime gaming

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    • otto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The USB-C is just the connector. The cables are thunderbolt.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah but there are still signal processing steps required to tell both ends of the connector which pins to use to implement the DisplayPort protocol.

        • DP connector is direct from GPU → Screen.
        • DP through USB has to go through the USB bus on the machine → Screen.

        Let’s hope that bus is dedicated, and not overloaded with other USB tasks!

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• blandfordforever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  640k of RAM should be enough for anybody

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  • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You think that’s a clever analogy but it’s not even close.

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    • blandfordforever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, I don’t know much about the resolving power and maximum refresh rate of human vision but I’m guessing that the monitor they described is close to the limit.

      The analogy refers to someone who has their thinking constrained to the current situation. They didn’t imagine that computers would become resource-intensive multimedia machines, just as this person suggests that video cable wouldn’t be asked to carry more data than would be necessary for the 8k monitor.

      I can imagine a scenario with dual high resolution screens, cameras and location tracking data passing through a single cable for something like a future VR headset. This may end up needing quite a bit more data throughput than the single monitor–and that isn’t even thinking outside the box. That’s still the current use case.

      Do you have a crystal ball over there? I still think it’s a clever analogy.

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      • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well then maybe you should read the comment you replied to again? They did not talk about how much data the cable would need. They even hypothesized that the cable format might even change. The meme talks about defining hd and they commented that 8k would be enough. Human eyes will not magically get more resolving so yeah, your analogy is still bad.

        I do disagree on the Hz though. It would indeed be nice if we got 8k@360hz at some point in the future but that’s not resolution so I’ll let it slide.

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• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I can see a clear difference between 144hz and 240hz, so even that part isn’t right

  And I haven’t used an 8K monitor, but I’m confident I could see a difference as well

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, frequency might go a bit higher. But I doubt many people could tell the difference between 8k and 16k.

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