Sunday, May 7, 2006
YAVCS - Yet Another Video Connection Standard
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 08:00 PM
"If you're shopping for a new or used display, you've got quite a choice of connectors. VGA, DVI, ADC, and HDMI are the primary options, although VGA looks to be dying a slow death while Apple's clever ADC has been end-of-lifed. Soon, there will be a new way of connecting your monitor to your computer, as the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has ratified version 1.0 of the DisplayPort connector. Under development for several years, DisplayPort is capable of carrying a high-definition digital audio signal over the same connecting cable as the video signal. DisplayPort's Main Link (a "high-bandwidth, low-latency unidirectional connection") uses a "micro-packetized" system for both audio and video and provides a smooth 10.8Gbps bandwidth, which the VESA says is capable of accommodating even higher-bandwidth applications in the future as displays support ever-higher resolutions and color depths."
Maybe I am missing the obvious, but this seems like a solution looking for a problem. I guess I can see that this would simplify things for the total AV newbie in that they would just need one cable to connect a peripheral to a display, but often, you are running the video signal to one device and the audio to another so you are just going to have to split things up anyway.
Maybe I am missing the obvious, but this seems like a solution looking for a problem. I guess I can see that this would simplify things for the total AV newbie in that they would just need one cable to connect a peripheral to a display, but often, you are running the video signal to one device and the audio to another so you are just going to have to split things up anyway.
