The Video Electronics Standards Association approved the DisplayPort 1.1
standard last month, and as one might expect, monitor vendors are already
working on DisplayPort-based LCD monitor prototypes.
Dell, for one, showed off a futuristic-looking wide-screen model at a
meeting in San Francisco. The display is a pretty radical departure from Dell's
existing wide-screen designs like the popular 2007WFP. It doesn't seem to have a
bezel as such; instead, its front surface is covered entirely by a glass panel
with a wide-screen LCD panel behind it, circular speaker holes on the sides, and
see-through buttons imprinted into the lower-right corner. It will support up to
4x the current HDTV resolutions, allow for integrated peripherals around the
display, and will let you daisychain multiple monitors, rather than installing
them in a star configuration. Everyting, including audio, microphone, panel I/O
and more will all go through a single bi-directional cable. Even better, by
eliminating a lot of the electronics used for video conversion, new LCD monitors
will be super-thin, and super sleek. It's only about a half an inch thick. The
prototype, displayed above, should be available later this year. OMG,
Holographic displays from the future are here! :-)
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