VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has
approved the
DisplayPort 1.0 specification. DisplayPort was created to replace DVI and
become a unified interface for computer monitors, TVs, and projectors. Designed
to carry a full, uncompressed video stream with the accompanying audio,
DisplayPort 1.0 offers up to 10.8 Gbps of bandwidth - more than twice the 4.95
Gbps available with single-link DVI. Unlike DVI, DisplayPort also supports
content protection via 128-bit ASE encryption, and it is designed to be
expandable to offer greater bandwidth in the future. Finally, VESA says
DisplayPort devices can offer "legacy compatibility" with DVI, although it isn't
specified whether the DisplayPort standard itself is backwards-compatible with
DVI.
In other news,
Dell, HP and Lenovo today jointly announced their support for the newly
released DisplayPort 1.0 digital display interface standard.