Well companies aren't not going to screw up existing compatibility and features just to get one fussy customer. Dp has a long way to go before it becomes viable in the living room, but for that to happen they need to care, ... and they don't. Dp is wholly focused on everything but the living room. Even the future spec is focused on simply chaining multiple displays with more bandwidth rather than implementing feature sets that make it a viable alternative in the living room.

Two questions:
1. Why would the EU mandate a specific standard on TVs? What is the basis? The USB-C mandate was directly linked to e-waste recovery whereas that isn't a problem here. Do you think they care that a couple of gamers can't get a Steamcube working at 61 FPS?
2. Law of unintended consequences, do you realise how many things you've just broken for consumers? Suddenly consumers are left wondering why their TV remote passthrough doesn't work on some of their inputs, or why audio return isn't possible? Or why TV but not receivers, and since you can't pass through without conversion now you've introduced audio latency going from dp to eARC (one of the things that eARC specifically was designed to avoid). HDMI has staying power in the AV world because of its feature set, not because of it's inferior characteristics to DP. Before DP becomes viable for TVs in general it would need to offer comparable features.

You'd be wrong. There are many features in HDMI that have no equivalent in DP which are virtually essential in the modern AV setup, things like eARC or CDC passthrough.

DP is by far superior on an electrical signalling perspective. But the best tech means nothing if you're unable to use it effectively. At the end of the day, features win out and consumers won't be interested in replacing a couple of HDMI cables for a shitton of separate AV cables.

Actually I don't think there's actually a way to properly implement some modern AV features without HDMI, as some of the modern audio codecs require more bandwidth than what traditional audio links (not the ones bundled with video) are capable of, and the lack of two way audio features in dp open you up to a shitton of messy cabling and switching TV and AV receivers independently like we did in the late 90s Dolby Pro-Logic II days.

DP has supported the exact same DRM that HDMI has for 19 years now... I think you need to do some reading.

It is literally the selling feature for home theatre. Most people hated the fact that early HDMI *didn't* do it. Either you hate it for incompatibilities with your specific equipment or you heat it for reasons that separate you from most of the rest of the AV world.

TVs won't use DP as DP lacks many features that are essential to AV systems. E.g. eARC or CDC.

DP -> HDMI can't implement the full feature set (including no VRR meaning display tearing) and introduces latency, precisely the opposite of what you want on gaming console.

Not, it's a question of not even asked. DP and HDMI were created with fundamentally different purposes. DP hasn't even attempted to implement these features as it was never intended as a protocol for AV systems, it targeted a next generation of PC displays.

It is absolutely not. Not for a gaming rig. Dongles capable of meeting the HDMI 2.1 bandwidth requirements (active ones) introduce significant latency (you just don't notice this because the sound is also delayed) which appears to act more like input latency than what you're typically used to. Additionally you'll get tearing due to the lack of VRR support since TVs don't use Gsync or Freesync and I've yet to see a single dongle on the market that actually implements that.

You're probably best of just limiting to 4K60 or a lower resolution while gaming. Or (valve is pretty open to hacking after all) wait till a day or two after release for someone to publish the binary blob of the GPU driver that enables HDMI 2.1 support.

Two things: Just because they are active and able to push bandwidth required for high resolutions doesn't mean they support HDMI 2.1 feature sets, in fact they almost universally don't. I've never seen a dongle for instance support for VRR (which is a godsend for gaming on a TV since TVs don't usually support Freesync or Gsync), and also those dongles introduce latency. You may not notice it directly when watching movies since they delay the audio in equal measure but it has a significant affect on visual response to input - again a problem for gaming.

Then you've made a decision based on an entirely faulty premise. Firstly HDMI doesn't need 10 seconds to negotiate HDCP, and secondly DisplayPort needs the same negotiation. DP introduced HDCP in 2 decades ago.

No. And not all consoles needed them. They were a shitty non-solution to a broken standards system back then as well.

Does your comment mean you are so old you've given up on the concept of the human race progressing and thus we have to re-implement long left behind stupid ideas?

This is the direct result of not banning sperm export. Even in the country where the sperm bank is based it's only legal to use the same donor 12 times.

But ultimately it's another case of big number sounding scary because relative statistics are ignored. Those 200 babies got unlucky but you're far FAR less likely to have a genetic problem with a donor, so having that multiplied by 200 isn't that big a deal. It is estimated that Li Fraumeni syndrome affects on average 1 in 10000 people. That's 400000 people passing on that gene potentially to their offspring on this planet.

False. It was the sperm bank didn't do a check they weren't required to do. You can't check for everything all the time. This simply was not something that was scanned for because the mutation was generally known to be very rare.

Which is why screening for everything you can screen for takes place. Incidentally you are not the first to think of this. Virtually all countries in the EU have donation limits. For example you can't donate to more than 12 families in the Netherlands. The issue is that sperm export is a thing, and that there's no regulations in place to handle this, meaning you could in theory father 12 children in the Netherlands, 15 in Germany, 10 in France, etc.

People accuse the EU of having too many rules, but the reality is for a common block with free trade and movement, there really aren't enough rules yet.

MAVEN and the rovers are part of a group of people that are dedicated to look after them. Simply sending them commands and working with them can take an entire boardroom full of people days. There may not be people dedicated to MAVEN specifically but MAVEN is none the less a consumer of NASA resources. This isn't just a case of people, but also a case of tying up space telescope time. It's not like you can just communicate with MAVEN using an antenna on your roof.