Why aren't 4K TV manufacturers adding DP

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As some or most of you are aware, 4K TV's are currently limited to 30Hz thanks to HDMI 1.4 and even if the TV does support HDMI 2.0, you still will be limited to 30Hz at 4K because currently there are no GPU's that has HDMI 2.0 support.

Why aren't TV manufacturers adding DP on their sets, well apart from Panasonic who currently has a 65" that has DP on it allowing 60Hz for PC use, why do they insist on using that inferior HDMI 1.4 while DP provides more bandwidth? I don't understand, if they cared about catering 4K users especially PC users who want 4K at 60Hz, shouldn't they add a DP port?
 
Because the way they see it no one will be feeding them with DP. Normally people have no idea they can connect a computer to a TV, and normal people do not have any equipment in their TV area that has DP output. Cable boxes, Recievers, Consoles, Add on devices like Roku, none of it not a thing has DP out. Everything in the TV world is built around HDMI.
 
30Hz is sufficient for TVs, because thanks to some poor implementations of the first generation of internal 120Hz TVs, the unwashed masses think that anything over 24Hz or 30Hz will have the unnatural smoothness commonly referred to in horrified whispers as "the soap opera look", a visceral reaction that has only been intensified and reinforced by the published screeds against the 48FPS film version of the Hobbit by movie critics to whom anything but 24FPS film is anathema to be burned along with the heretical directors that dared to assault their eyes.

This is just ducky with the monitor manufacturers, who would rather that PC owners use expensive monitors instead of cheap TVs for their primary displays. You'll see HDMI for TVs, Displayport for monitors as a general rule.
 
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