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Comment by Dylan16807

3 years ago

> So how well are the USB C cables going to work that follow the minimum “mandate” that doesn’t require cables to support data at all?

Citation needed? I think those are below the minimum.

> How well are they going to work when people pick up a “USB C” cable and wonder why they aren’t seeing video when they connect their phone to their TV?

They probably feel similar to people with lightning cables.

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hot_gril  3 years ago

> They probably feel similar to people with lightning cables.

Lightning supports video. Or were you just making a joke about how unreliable it is? Cause man, I can't even charge my phone sometimes.

  • Dylan16807  3 years ago

    Lightning doesn't support video over mere cables. You need a complicated adapter that decompresses the video sent by the device. It's like a tiny streaming setup.

    If you just pick up a generic lightning cable, you're not getting video.

    • hot_gril  3 years ago

      Yeah, Lightning doesn't run HDMI or DP over it. I think Lightning still has some kind of video protocol for those adapters to work. USB (non-C) to HDMI requires special software on the host.