Commenting on: Display Port: the new kid on the block is poised to take over - Part 1 of 3
Posted by Tony DeYoung on July 24, 2008
VGA, DVI, Dual-Link DVI, HDMI, and now Display Port. The display market is getting crowded with standards. I’m one of the many individuals in the computer industry who believe that the Display Port is the way of the future. Why?
Display Port was designed as an alternative to digital-display-interface incumbents HDMI (its consumer electronics competitor) and DVI (the current PC standard). It definitely improves some aspects of HDMI and DVI for certain applications. However is this enough to cause a new standard to overtake a more established interface? I think so…
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Even small display manufacturers ship millions of units each year. The “whopping” $10,000 license fee works out to less than half a cent per unit, even if a given company only ships 2 million displays, and at the major brands that people actually buy (Samsung, Dell, LG, etc.), it’s a much smaller fraction of a penny. Last year, over 350 million LCDs were sold.
The entire premise of this article is absurd. Savings for the internal connectors on laptops are true, but nowhere else.
By SD on 2008-12-06
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