Display Port ; the future of displays?

VESA’s new display interface standard isn’t out there in a big way yet, but it’s nice! I wish it were here already.

At IDF we showed how a single Display Port output can drive (with dongles) HDMI, DVI or VGA. It’s a smaller and more robust self-locking connector than any of these, and I can’t wait to use it instead of the clunky old VGA connector on the projectors in our conference rooms. Its high bandwidth will drive display configurations I can currently only dream of owning. Running in parallel with this, the desire to be REALLY thin and light in notebooks means that the DVI and VGA outputs are simply too big. Such is the squeeze on mobile computing devices that VESA is working on a mini-DP connector to make the socket even smaller

Inside notebooks, the same interface is available on graphics chips already, and the panel vendors are ready for orders. Embedded Display Port helps inside the notebook too.

I think this technology will go the way of the iPod … which I saw advertized alongside highway 101 long before it became popular … but then the rest is history.