Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever

stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Instead, they’re trying to force everything to USB with DP Alt mode which has a ton of the same annoyances…but at least USB C is flippable I guess.

  HDMI 2.1 cables have 19 wires and USB 3.2 has 13 or 14 (can’t remember) so they’re really finicky and fragile. Fiber has 1 or 2 and is VERY rugged in comparison…you can literally tie a knot in a fiber cable and it’ll still work.

  Plus with fiber, if your AVR blows up, it can’t take the other equipment out with it since it’s electrically isolated.

  Fiber is also cheap cheap cheap!

  Fiber is thin and easy to route.

  Fiber can ALSO be shortened, extended, etc. in the field.

  The only downside is the cost of the splicing tools (and the cleanliness required)

  And I guess SFP connectors are pretty gnarly. But if it was aimed at consumers, they could slap a nice rubberized coat on it…

  Man, I love fiber.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fiber needs like an 8” minimum bend radius… I think that’s for just a single strand.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It definitely depends on the application but my instructor showed it to us in training and I replicated it for a tech who wasn’t there later

      There’s also two minimums, one for how much it can bend before the fiber breaks and one (much larger) radius for peak operation. A knot causes optical loss but it still works

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah man you can fuck up fiber all kinds of ways and it still works great. Short of intentionally stomping the patch it’s fine.

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fiber has 1 or 2 and is VERY rugged in comparison…you can literally tie a knot in a fiber cable and it’ll still work.

    Emm, not with glass fibers. My friend uses it between router and switch, and the one of the fiber breaks. So, traffic can be sent to router but nothing the other way around. He said he didn’t even touch or put significant stress on the cable. Yet, it breaks in a weird way, and hard to troubleshot without proper equipment.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This can happen but it’s rare. I’ve seen fiber tied in tight knots still work.

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• Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That would be awesome, but the fucking corpo bullshit cunts need proprietary bullshit cause “piracy”

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If a fiber transceiver supports 100 GbE it’s not really sensible to refer to it as 10 GbE.

  Also, is it cheaper? I highly doubt it…

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• bangsnooter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  sfp+ can do audio and video? I’ve only ever used it for networking

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The neat thing about digital stuff is that you can put anything through anything.

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  • kat@orbi.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    1s and 0s, you can do anything with em

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But what about -1s? 0.5s?

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Also 0s and 1s!

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  • tibi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s used for PCIE so of course it can.

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• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At this point we should just swing to 10 gbps sfp+ ports

  That’s not enough bandwidth unless you want compressed video.

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