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Now, DP does have an advantage over HDMI. While both connectors incur a physical cost (parts aren't free), HDMI has a royalty fee whereas DP is royalty-free. So that's a slight benefit for DP. Problem is that EVERYTHING (consoles, set top boxes, motherboards and discrete GPUS) supports HDMI. DisplayPort? Only discrete GPUs and some motherboards.
This monitor is about the lowest common denominator. I prefer DP as well. But for this monitor it literally adds nothing.
HDMI is great to have on it, but it 100% should have DP connection if you are going to market it as a monitor.
Nope. Not true at all. But almost every PC is being shipped with HDMI. This was a cost cutting move aimed at the lowest common denominator. They wanted essentially one digital port. They chose the one with the largest install base. You can argue against facts, logic, and reasoning all you want, you'll still be wrong. But hey, while you're at it, go tell the wind not to blow, the sun not to shine, and the water not to be wet. Let me know how that works out for you.
2 modern and VERY popular graphics cards: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487265&cm_re=1070-_-14-487-265-_-Product Both cards have - 3 DP and 1 HDMI
Comparable ATI/AMD products: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ40W5929 Also has 3 DP and 1 HDMI.
Again my original point HDMI is for TVs. DP is for monitors. People don't buy a laptop and a MONITOR for the same use. You buy a desktop PC and a Monitor or you buy a Laptop and a TV.
A pretty standard industry laptop out right now is the HP elite book and it has a DP with NO HDMI. Just another example. This laptop is really made for a mobile docking laptop (meaning it would be connected to a MONITOR not a TV).
Hope that helps to clarify what I meant to say.
A decade a go, this was true. It's not anymore. They are both digital transports with capabilities that leapfrog each other. The current DisplayPort 1.4 standard is superior to the HDMI 2.0b standard. As such, upcoming 4k, 144hz, HDR displays use DisplayPort. But for 4k, 60hz and below? They are interchangeable. Neither has a benefit so you use whichever.
However, HDMI 2.1 seems set to leapfrog DisplayPort in a meaningful way. The VESA association caved, giving in to Nvidia's demands and made VRR (variable refresh rate) an optional standard. This caving in gave us the current G-Sync vs. FreeSync proprietary situation. HDMI 2.1 has a MANDATORY VRR implementation. The end result? HDMI 2.1 displays will support VRR on any GPU. No more proprietary standards locking your monitor and GPU together.
HDMI is about to become the gaming standard if VESA doesn't do something.
Again, you are simply restating your original point in the hopes that someone, ANYONE, will agree with you. I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. For this monitor, DisplayPort holds no tangible advantage over HDMI. Replacing HDMI with DisplayPort on this monitor would reduce the cost per unit by a few cents at most, but would also reduce their target market, thus reducing sales. Adding a second digital port would raise costs and in all likelihood require a different scalar, thus further raising costs.
If you can explain a factual benefit to DisplayPort over HDMI for this display, I'm listening, but you haven't presented it yet.