To be fair, scart was less of a standard for display, and more a pinout to carry most of that stuff. Scart is the least problematic of those in the list.
And largely the others weren’t so much competing as they addressed failures in those before it. RF had limited bandwidth and required a carrier. Composite was the same as RF, but better due to not needing the carrier. S-video is the same with the color information separated for a clearer image. Component is better still by further separating color signals.
The issue with HDMI and displayport is that they are largely the same thing.
Good point on Scart. DVI(-I/-D) would have been a better example than that.
I agree that each was an incremental improvement, but with how long it took for each of them to establish dominance and supersede the older standard, they might as well have been competing.
I still remember buying my kid a Wii, and you had a pick of composite, component, or S-Video. And that was nearly half a decade after HDMI was created…
The issue with HDMI and displayport is that they are largely the same thing.
Unfortunately, yeah. If it were up to me, though, HDMI would be phased out. With the exception of Audio Return Channel, DisplayPort can do everything consumer HDMI can do with higher bandwidth and without being encumbered by royalties.
If it were up to me, though, HDMI would be phased out.
I agree. But sadly, the media market has standardized on it so it’s here for a while. So for as long as there are TVs, we will have HDMI until they move to a new one.
To be fair, scart was less of a standard for display, and more a pinout to carry most of that stuff. Scart is the least problematic of those in the list.
And largely the others weren’t so much competing as they addressed failures in those before it. RF had limited bandwidth and required a carrier. Composite was the same as RF, but better due to not needing the carrier. S-video is the same with the color information separated for a clearer image. Component is better still by further separating color signals.
The issue with HDMI and displayport is that they are largely the same thing.
Good point on Scart. DVI(-I/-D) would have been a better example than that.
I agree that each was an incremental improvement, but with how long it took for each of them to establish dominance and supersede the older standard, they might as well have been competing.
I still remember buying my kid a Wii, and you had a pick of composite, component, or S-Video. And that was nearly half a decade after HDMI was created…
Unfortunately, yeah. If it were up to me, though, HDMI would be phased out. With the exception of Audio Return Channel, DisplayPort can do everything consumer HDMI can do with higher bandwidth and without being encumbered by royalties.
I agree. But sadly, the media market has standardized on it so it’s here for a while. So for as long as there are TVs, we will have HDMI until they move to a new one.