A:Answer Insignia's rep here is either ignorant or lying.
This overpriced 20 buck cable is DisplayPort 1.2, ***not 1.4***.
I've only realized this after buying it and exceeding the 15-day return policy. Yes, I'm salty.
Note that the data transfer limit is consistent with 1.2, and the specification page carefully avoids noting the DisplayPort version at all. So too does the physical box the cable comes in.
I should've been more careful, less trusting. For the record, what actually led me to realizing this cable is low-key 1.2 is that it's failing to achieve true 10-bit color depth on my monitor, though it's somehow fooling Windows and my GPU driver into falsely listing it as 10 bit.
This is apparently some shady crap being pulled by Best Buy and/or their in-house brand Insignia. They appear to be deliberately posturing these 1.2 cables as 1.4 without explicitly saying so in the specs. Perhaps to clear old inventory? I don't know.
