[deanclatworthy]

I work in an office of about 100 people and 8 meeting rooms. In each room is a tv or projector. Every room has a hdmi > DisplayPort adaptor. We have tried about 15 different adaptors. Every single one will break down within half a year to a year. Or sooner.

I've never had a single problem plugging in HDMI directly.

[TeMPOraL]

Your customers would be pretty annoyed at you if a display port in their $1000+ laptops broke after half a year of normal usage. On the other hand, $10 adapter is a throwaway item, so manufacturers have zero reasons to care.

Such is the disposable culture.