Get ready for DisplayPort
posted May 10th 2005 11:45AM
The Video Electronics Standard Association announced yesterday that a group of manufacturers that includes ATI, Nvidia, Dell, HP, Philips, Tyco, and Molex are close to finalizing a new display connector standard for LCD, plasma, CRT, and projection displays called "DisplayPort". Not a ton of details yet (we're sorta curious how all this fits in with HDMI, for example), but ExtremeTech reports that DisplayPort connectors will be smaller than DVI and VGA ports (which means even smaller PCs) and that they're going to make sure there are plenty of copy protections in there to guarantee that you're connecting up to a "trusted" device and not trying to pirate anything. The new standard should be sorted out by Q3 of this year, with the first DisplayPort-compatible devices showing up sometime early next year.
That's just great. The one thing that we need more of - Copy Protection!! I think I am going to go shoot myself.
Does port size really have much to do with the size of PC's?
Does port size really have much to do with the size of PC's?
The amount of time and money these companies will have to spend on Customer and Tech Support for legit customers who can't get their devices to work under the new "trusted hardware" will greatly outweight the little "piracy" this might prevent.
Just when I thought HDMI had a future...
Oh well, I mean, I know it's SO WRONG for me to take the "high-quality" *cough* movie trailers I find online and watch them on the 42" plasma hooked to the second output on my G5...
If it ever makes it to market, I'm sure someone will take about 3 minutes to find a way to hack it...
All these copy protection schemes are amusing. They are targeted at the "average consumer" not us "tech elites"
Apparently the difference is that one group is motivated enough to do a Google search for the bypass technique, the other is not.
Not only will this be cracked, but I'll go out of my way to not purchase anything with it built in.
I dont see what the big deal about HDMI is on Engadget. Its just another connection method that will drown in the ethos. It never got as popular as Component or DVI and was basically geared for families without a home theater. I'm surprised it even made it out the door to begin with.
I'm pretty sure I won't be buying any displays that connect via some copy-protected cable? besides it would have to use some sort of computing power that I don't want to give up for something this lame.
I don't think its possible to market something like that without really huge incentives, and I see none.
And I don't know of any PC's that have to be built larger because they need room for a standard vga port. Has anyone else ever heard of this being an issue?
WTF is wrong with HDMI? Why do we need another freaking input type???
Are they still planning to go forward with the copy prevention even after the court struck down the broadcast flag this week?
About time to get past 24bit colors in this digital age...
About time to get past 24bit colors in this digital age...