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by handrous 1691 days ago
> I'm happy to see HDMI ports showing up on more laptops these days!

HDMI is going to be especially sticky, and great to have built-in, for years to come, most likely. AFAIK USB-C cannot replace it, because, like most data cables that aren't HDMI or Ethernet, it has really, really short max-length limitations. Meanwhile, HDMI can have runs of 20+ meters and work totally fine, no repeaters or anything. If you're building in a ceiling projector, or have a TV at one end of a room but the connection in a conference table, you will use HDMI. Something might replace it, but it'll be a cable we've not heard of yet, not USB-C.
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Sebb767 1691 days ago
You can send USB C and/or Thunderbolt over fiber. It's rather expensive as of now, but it's possible.

Example 50m cable: https://www.rockshop.de/corning-thunderbolt-3-optical-cable-...

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rbanffy 1690 days ago
Or, you know, buy a $10 dongle.
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handrous 1690 days ago
That's actually really cool if you wanted to send input over the same connection. Like, if the thing that's remote is the computer, not the monitor or projector. Put your noisy graphics workstation in the utility room or something, run Thunderbolt & USB3 over fiber to your desk on another floor, but still feel like it's local, not like RDP or VNC.

Way too expensive for that, but if the price drops a bunch on that tech, that'd become an option.

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Sebb767 1690 days ago
> Way too expensive for that, but if the price drops a bunch on that tech, that'd become an option.

You can get those cables for ~500$. It's not super practical yet, but if you can afford a 1500$ GPU, you can also add that :) Plus, you'll need to worry about cooling, noise and optics a lot less, which, on a high end build, might already be enough saving to make it worthwhile.

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