Thread: Intel supposes to replace your headphone jack with USB Type-C
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Old 04-28-2016, 12:29 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
The real reason?

DRM: Copy Protection

All the current Digital ports enforce Copy Protection.
The Analog port... Wide open. Inferior, but wide open
Not necessarily inferior.
Sound is intrinsically analog; digital is just an approximation.

And DRM isn't the automatic reason why everything is done. Sometimes simplicity and cost factors into it.
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