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April 4th, 2007

New DisplayPort: DVI We Hardly Knew Ye

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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

What’s smaller than DVI and VGA and offers twice the video performance of DVI? The standards body VESA has approved the DisplayPort 1.1, a USB-looking connection that is smaller than DVI for small electronics, and compatible with HDMI via a HDMI to DisplayPort adapter. Source: Engadget

We Say: Can’t we all pick HDMI and stick with it? This is yet another set of cables and what you are really looking at is a standrads tug of war. Display Port = the computer world and HDMI = the electronics guys. Can’t we all just get along?

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3 comments to "New DisplayPort: DVI We Hardly Knew Ye"

  1. MissingFrame says:

    That’s the great thing about standards, there are so many to choose from.

    April 4th, 2007 at 9:08 am

  2. Another Mike says:

    I would hardly call anything standard right now. I mean even HDMI has like what 6 versions out right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi#Versions

    I find it fine to have different connections for TV/Entertainment and PC. Before the “All Digital” revolution we had composite/S-Video for tv and Vga for computers. That wasn’t so bad was it?

    It hardly makes sense routing audio through the video card to a cable that makes its way to a monitor does it? There is a perfectly good sound card in computer that you should be jacking into anyways(and is more convenient for me anyways)

    April 4th, 2007 at 9:33 am

  3. David Chait says:

    The issue was that the computer and consumer tech industries needed a single cable solution for A/V. HDMI was ‘it’ for a while, but the fact it was a licensed/royalty-based solution makes it more difficult for companies to adopt given tightening bottom line costs.

    HDMI hasn’t really taken off on the computer as-yet, with only a few monitors and cards supporting it. Now is the time for the industry to get behind a new standard. It will also make circuit boards smaller (I hope), and should make it much easier to do multi-input monitors and multi-monitor KVMs too (they could probably find a way to route input devices over displayport too if they thought about it! ;) ).

    April 8th, 2007 at 10:36 am

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