Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable
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And a monitor that supports usb-c, I assume.
Or just a converter from USB-C to whatever you have on your current screen.
DisplayLink. The Dell box I use to hotdesk my office laptop by day also works as a KVM on my pixel 9a. I get power, monitor, keyboard, mouse and ethernet on one cable.
It's good for watching movies.
Do you mean DisplayPort?
No, that's different. Displaylink is basically KVM over USB-C.
No. DisplayLink is video out over a regular USB protocol/connection, not "alt mode". It's for when you don't have true video out. It's compressed to hell and stupid.
I think you mean DP Alt Mode.
As far as i know, display link requires software not available on the pixel, so you must be using display port and confusing both. Display port supports all the things you said