I'd say that's a more recent development though because of how long it took for DisplayPort 2 products to make it to market. On both my RTX 4000 series GPU, and gaming 1440p240hz OLED monitor, HDMI 2.1 (~42 Gigabit) is the higher bandwidth port over its DisplayPort 1.4 (~26 Gigabit). So I use the HDMI ports. 26 Gigabit isn't enough for 1440p240z at 10-bit HDR colour. You can do it with DSC, but that comes with its own issues.

Only now are DisplayPort 2 monitors coming out

HDMI is still valuable for those of us who use KVMs. Cheap Display port KVMs don't have EDID emulation and expensive Display Port KVMs just don't work (in my experience).

This is the right answer. I see a bunch of people talking about licensing fees for HDMI, but when you’re plugging in 4 monitors it’s really nice to only use one type of cable. If you’re only using one type of cable, it’s gonna be DP.

You can also get GT730's with 4xHDMI - not fast, but great for office work and display/status boards type scenarios. Single slot passive design too, so you can stack several in a single PC. Currently just £63 UK each.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-GT730-4H-SL-2GD5-GeForce-multi...

Yeah, I recall even old Quadro cards in early Core era hardware often had quad mini DisplayPort.

As far as things I care about go, the HDMI Forum’s overt hostility[1] to open-source drivers is the important part, but it would indeed be interesting to know what Intel cared about there.

(Note that some self-described “open” standards are not royalty-free, only RAND-licensed by somebody’s definiton of “R” and “ND”. And some don’t have their text available free of charge, either, let alone have a development process open to all comers. I believe the only thing the phrase “open standard” reliably implies at this point is that access to the text does not require signing an NDA.

DisplayPort in particular is royalty-free—although of course with patents you can never really know—while legal access to the text is gated[2] behind a VESA membership with dues based on the company revenue—I can’t find the official formula, but Wikipedia claims $5k/yr minimum.)

[1] https://hackaday.com/2023/07/11/displayport-a-better-video-i...

[2] https://vesa.org/vesa-standards/

I'm not 100% sure but last time I looked it wasn't openly available anymore - it may still royalty free but when I tried to download the specification the site said you had to be a member of VESA now to download the standard (it is still possible to find earlier versions openly).

That's because DP sources can (and nearly always do) support encoding HDMI as a secondary mode, so all you need is a passive adapter. Going the other way requires active conversion.

I assume you have to pay HDMI royalties for DP ports which support the full HDMI spec, but older HDMI versions were supersets of DVI, so you can encode a basic HDMI compatible signal without stepping on their IP.

As long as the port supports it passively (called "DP++ Dual Mode"), if you have a DP-only port then you need an active converter which are the same as the latter pricing you mentioned.

USB-C would fit and has display port alt mode, technically. Not much out there natively supports it. Mini DP can be passively converted to a lot however so I assume that was the choice. Also Nvidia workstation cards have similar port configuration.

Video cards with HDMI don’t support CEC anyway. eARC is only relevant for TV to AVR connexions.