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TL;DR
- The Pixel 8 collection helps DisplayPort performance on a {hardware} stage.
- The function is disabled within the telephones’ software program.
- You possibly can root the units to allow show output over USB-C.
The Google Pixel 8 collection is now confirmed to help DisplayPort Alternate Mode, also referred to as DP Alt Mode. Which means the telephones have a USB-C port able to transferring DisplayPort alerts and broadcasting video to exterior show units over a USB-C connection. The findings had been confirmed by Mishaal Rahman, who, with the assistance of a tester, shared a video exhibiting a Pixel 8 Professional efficiently related to a show.
The invention of the Pixel 8 collection supporting DisplayPort performance comes after Google confirmed to Android Authority that the telephones lack the function. Answering an emailed questionnaire, Google explicitly advised us, “The Pixel 8 and eight Professional presently don’t help DisplayPort connection.”
Seems, the operate is disabled at a software program stage on the Pnew Pixels, not like earlier Google telephones, which didn’t help DisplayPort on a {hardware} stage.
Rahmaan just lately advised a way that entails rooting a Pixel 8 and tinkering with some configurations to allow show output over USB-C. The method works with the suitable mixture of USB-C cables and screens/different shows. The tester who managed to make this work used a USB-C-to-USB-C cable that’s claimed to be DisplayPort suitable.
It’s unclear why Google hasn’t formally enabled DisplayPort performance on the brand new Pixels when the {hardware} is able to performing the duty. The brand new iPhone 15 collection additionally helps 4K HDR video output to an exterior show by way of DisplayPort. Google may have simply enabled the identical, however maybe the corporate is nonetheless engaged on perfecting the function.
