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I was there man... (reddthat.com)
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[–] 19 points 3 months ago* (8 children)

Ah yes, the fun days of hooking up the dvd player to our CRT, but it was too heavy to move, so we had to trial and error all the cords without seeing the colours on the back until it worked

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    To be fair thats probably easier than blindly plugging in hdmi, its like usb but so much worse

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I present to you: blindly plugging a SCART in the back of our monolith of a TV... Harder than aligning an HDMI and it would shock me from time to time for some reason, while feeling around to find the socket

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    USB-C has a DP-alt mode, so it can feed DisplayPort signals through that connector.

    DisplayPort can speak HDMI too, so cheap passive adaptors and straight through cables are possible from DisplayPort connectors.

    So a USB-C port can fling HDMI signals and theoretically a tv can have usb-c ports for everything except maybe power which would exceed spec.

    I don’t know if I hate this idea or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't the audio get lost with passive ones?

    except maybe power which would exceed spec

    According to wikipedia you can use a USB up to 240w, a TV will def not use that much power

    Thought, it would probably have 2 different USBs, one for display and one for power which i am hating, i already see from 1km the people mistaking the ports and messing shit up

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Funny thing with that is that my TV is on a wall mount that pivots so it should theoretically be easier to plug in the HDMI, but the mount part that screws into the TV is also in the way of where the ports are so plugging anything in involves shoving my hand into a narrow gap anyway lol

    Though to plug the other end of it into my PC I just have to crawl under my desk :3

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