Commenting on: Display Port: performance advantages over DVI (and HDMI) - Part 2 of 3
Posted by Tony DeYoung on August 06, 2008
In Part 1, I talked about the inevitably of Display Port becoming the dominant display interface standard for PCs and handheld devices, if for no other reasons than cost:
- Display Port avoids the $10k/year license fee of HDMI
- Display Port direct-drive technology eliminates the cost for additional circuitry in computer displays
Cost aside, now I want to look at Display Port performance and features relative to the incumbents DVI and HDMI.
(Note: companies like Dell publicly contend that Display Port and HDMI will coexist to meet different product applications - but read in to what they say and…
Comments
The $10k can’t mean much to Dell or anybody else, and the connector is not significantly smaller than HDMI. It’s an answer to a question never asked. Could someone be paying Dell to throw their enormous weight behind it? Remember when Intel was under contract to promote Rambus?
By Ted Crum on 2008-10-09
The 10k may not mean much to Dell other than being annoying, but the $5-$10 per display cost savings because of direct-drive will mean something.
Also I think the 30 bit thing is a big deal (an attractive selling point for monitors).
There is obviously politics involved, but I doubt it is payoffs. I think it is more power struggles between consumer electronics companies and computer companies.
By Anders Metro on 2008-10-09
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