USB monitors haven’t been very hot since they first appear a few years back. There are advantages with these though as they only need a USB port to work. The company DisplayLink hopes that the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard will breath new life into the market segment and reveals that the first circuits supporting the interface will be shipping in the latter half of 2010.
At CES next week DisplayLink is expected to show USB 3.0 devices using the new circuit sending video signals up to rates of 4.8Gbps.
The massive bandwidth available with USB 3.0 makes it possible to stream High Definition video resolutions from games and HD video to monitors. The capacity is actually greater than both DisplayPort and HDMI that are used by modern graphics cards.
DisplayLink hopes to make its USB 3.0 monitors attractive alternatives for those looking for a second or even third monitor, and according to analysts the USB standard is moving up on the LCD monitor market in 2010.
Running Windows 7, DisplayLink’s USB 2.0 chips enable games to be displayed at 60 frames-per-second and in high-def video at 26 to 27 frames per second, Crespo said. The USB 3.0 chip will be even faster, enabling monitors connected to laptops and netbooks to display HD video and 3D games without any flickers.
