Why are mini to full size display port cables hard to find?

[bniu]

wanted to plug my rMBP to a Samsung 4K UHD screen they had a full size display port via my mac's mDP connection. So I went looking for a cable that goes from mDP to DP and went to Best Buy, Apple, radio shack and couldn't find any. That's really odd to me that these cables are non-existent in stores? Why is that?

You would think that with all the mDP macs out there and displays with DP out there that there'd be a need for such a cable?

 

[peskaa]

http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters...F8&qid=1438509716&sr=1-6&keywords=displayport

Amazon is full of them.

 

[marzer]

wanted to plug my rMBP to a Samsung 4K UHD screen they had a full size display port via my mac's mDP connection. So I went looking for a cable that goes from mDP to DP and went to Best Buy, Apple, radio shack and couldn't find any. That's really odd to me that these cables are non-existent in stores? Why is that?

You would think that with all the mDP macs out there and displays with DP out there that there'd be a need for such a cable?

With HDMI becoming so ubiquitous, the display port (esp. The miniDP) is something of a specialty item. Most desktop computers (non-Apple that is) still use DVI, if not HDMI. You probably will only find such a cable on the Internet.

https://www.google.com/#q=mini+to+displayport+cable

I prefer and recommend Monoprice, quality cables at a good price:

http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024606