Re:In Praise of AutoHotKey
by couchcombinator on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:34AM
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Which is something I don't understand, just separate the signal and give me a digital output from the monitor, why are monitors doing digital analog conversion for audio too, all of a sudden?
It was useful for me when I hooked my nephew's Nintendo Switch up to my computer monitor to let him play and then connected desktop speakers straight to the monitor.
It's pretty cheap to add and enough people find it useful
Re:In Praise of AutoHotKey
by slightwinder on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:35AM
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There are usually different flavors of the same base-model. Some have speakers, other not. Not adding speakers, but leaving the rest ist just cheaper and more reliable than tinkering with every flavor for single features.
This is quite common on HDMI monitors. Since the HDMI connection transmits both audio and video, the monitor just accepts both audio and video input. They would then have a 3.5-mm jack to allow you plug in an actual speaker or headphone to receive the audio output.