04-04-2020, 12:48 PM
(04-04-2020, 05:50 AM)GloriousCoffee Wrote:(04-03-2020, 08:54 PM)bsammon Wrote: It's my impression that a lot of monitors (and maybe TVs as well?) support DisplayPort nowadays. If that's true, you (anyone wanting to hook a PBP to an external monitor) should double-check to see if the monitor supports DisplayPort. A PBP-compatible USBC-to-DisplayPort cable/adapter should be a good bit cheaper than a PBP-compatible USBC-to-HDMI adapter, right?
Personally I only have HDMI inputs on my monitor.
Don't know about cheaper. Got my USBC->HDMI alt-mode cable for about the equivalent of $20. That's not to bad, but may be Pine64 should carry this type of cable in their store so that n00bs like me don't have to make the mistake of first ordering a cable without alt-mode. Also, alt-mode cables are not very common it seems, lots of stores put way higher prices on them compared to regular USBC->HDMI cables.
Yeah, that fits what I read earlier in this thread. What you call a "alt-mode cable" is a "alt-mode-displayport to HDMI" converter. That requires circuitry (i.e integrated circuit chips) to convert the displayport signal to HDMI.
A "regular USBC->HDMI" cable is just a cable adapter that just puts all the wires in the right places, and shouldn't require any complex circuitry. It connects "alt-mode HDMI" (which the PBP doesn't do) to regular HDMI.
This wikipedia link may be useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Alte...ifications