Displayport is a new digital video interface that has been developed and designed by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and will be a standard to compete with today’s HDMI interface. Displayport is suppose to be much more efficient with higher capacity compared to today’s digital standards DVI and HDMI. Displayport will be able to handle higher resolutions and color depths, which among others Windows Vista will offer when it arrives. The technology will be cheap to license, which HDMI is not, something that would pull down the costs or at least mean higher production costs. The contacts are very small and will be favorable to use with e.g. thin laptops.
VESA and Displayport have now come one step closer to a final market introduction as three of the biggest builders PC builders in the world have chosen to back up the new interface. HP, Dell and Lenovo has namely announced that they all support the Displayport 1.0 standard, which could mean that we will see products using this interface fairly soon.
Source: The Inquirer
