

The struggle between DisplayPort and HDMI continues





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RE: If there's a bright side...
By Visual on 4/4/2007 5:25:52 AM , Rating: 2
DVI has reached its limits, yes - but there is dual-link DVI to the rescue, so no real reason to abandon DVI yet.

HDMI started out as just DVI+audio over the same cable, with a smaller nicer connector, definitely a win for CE devices and not bad to have on PCs too... later revisions 1.1, 1.2, 1.2a changed nothing in the physical connection, only further specified things as content-protection metadata, Consumer Electronic Control features and command sets, and 1.3 increased the single-link bandwidth more than twice (i.e. it gets more bandwidth not by adding more wires but by increasing frequency).
So the latest HDMI is a good deal better than DVI, and given that it's already winning grounds in the CE market I would choose it as the best for PCs as well. Licensing fees are the only reason alternatives as DisplayPort are even considered, but I've never seen actual price differences being quoted and so can't say if it's worth it... anyone have a clue how much we're talking about?

I really don't like the idea of having to deal with yet another non-standard standard just to save a dollar on my video card, I'd rather stick with HDMI.

RE: If there's a bright side...


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