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VESA Approves Apple's Mini DisplayPort Standard

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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced that it has officially issued specifications as part of the DisplayPort 1.1a standard for the Mini DisplayPort connector developed by Apple and implemented on its Macs since the October 2008 introduction of the 24" LED Cinema Display and refreshed MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

Apple had initially offered the standard on its own as a no-fee license in order to encourage adoption, but VESA announced early this year that it would include the Mini DisplayPort specification in its next update to the broader DisplayPort standard, opening the door for even simpler adoption by other manufacturers.
Originally developed by Apple for its new generation of portable PCs, Mini DisplayPort is much smaller than DVI (Digital Video Interface) or VGA connectors and enables full function display output on ultrathin notebooks and netbooks. Earlier this year, Apple agreed to license the mDP interface to VESA for inclusion in the DisplayPort standard.
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VESA also announced that it is in the process of finalizing DisplayPort Standard 1.2, which will double the available bandwidth and open the door to a broad range of improvements in display connectivity.
VESA is finalizing DisplayPort 1.2, which incorporates mDP and doubles available bandwidth to 21.6 Gb/second. The increased bandwidth enables new capabilities such as multi-monitor support via a single output connector, higher resolutions, refresh rates and color depths, along with high performance 3D displays.
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Article Link: VESA Approves Apple's Mini DisplayPort Standard
 
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i love mDP, I think it's a great evolution of display connectivity. Hopefully soon it will be able to support multiple monitors.

-LanPhantom
 
MacRumors said:
VESA also announced that it is in the process of finalizing DisplayPort Standard 1.2, which will double the available bandwidth and open the door to a broad range of improvements in display connectivity.
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Hello 32" LED ACD with something like 2844x1600 or 3072x1728 within the next 12 months.
 
So I'm lefting asking the same question I started asking 12 months ago.

When do we get to see MDP -> DL-DVI adaptors that

a) Work (unlike the Apple one)
and
b) Cost less than £60 (unlike the Apple one)
 
Wikipedia says DispalyPort 1.1a was approved in January 2008. What am I missing?
 
Good news. Looking at how the HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition card (with 6 monitor support!) uses it, it'd be hard to design such a card without using a custom port. But standard = better.
 
Yay. Another absolutely pointless type of connector. Why does Apple insist on doing this? It's going to be a huge failure just like Firewire.
 
MacRumors said:
VESA also announced that it is in the process of finalizing DisplayPort Standard 1.2, which will double the available bandwidth and open the door to a broad range of improvements in display connectivity.
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Wouldn't it be nice if they just "got it right the first time?" Yeah, I know that standards have to evolve, but it's always a double-edged sword to consumers. Better performance at the cost of inconvenient transitions and incompatibilities.
 
strike1555 said:
Yay. Another absolutely pointless type of connector. Why does Apple insist on doing this? It's going to be a huge failure just like Firewire.
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VGA ad DVI are more prevalent right now, but you have obviously never had to mess with plugging in a monitor where the connector is behind the computer and almost impossible to get to. the mini Display Port is much much smaller and from what it looks like is more like a USB connection. This is much easier to plug in and not have to worry about screwing down the DVI connection, etc.

From what I have seen it is most hard to get the monitor producers to switch over. They tend to stick with the older DVI/VGA instead of moving to the newer connector types. I think graphics hard manufacturers are moving a little quicker. It took them a while to do HDMI (which never really caught on in the computer monitor area, but did for TV's) but I think they will be quicker to move to Display Port.
 
Lightpeak can be used for displays too, in theory. In fact, it could probably replace everything but the audio jack(s).
 
MorphingDragon said:
Lightpeak is for peripherals and to compete against USB3.
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Not entirely; from the videos and reading I have seen it is designed to be the cats meow of connectors. It is supposed to replace all connection types. The video I saw had them running a monitor via Lightpeak.
 
djellison said:
So I'm lefting asking the same question I started asking 12 months ago.

When do we get to see MDP -> DL-DVI adaptors that

a) Work (unlike the Apple one)
and
b) Cost less than £60 (unlike the Apple one)
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Not sure about (a), as I haven't used the existing adapter. But as to (b), probably about NEVER. The adapter is taking an existing 10Gbps packetized stream and reformatting it into 6 1.6Gbps streams, while also retiming the whole thing to match the video format of the DVI-attached display. Not simple, and not cheap. Add to that the fairly small market (dual-link displays are all $$) and the likely introduction of new displays from Dell, Apple and others with native support for DP/mDP, and it's just not going to happen.
 
This is (almost) great news. If Apple or VESA or whoever would include digital audio in this little port (think HDMI style) then it would be perfect. I don't understand why they haven't included this feature yet. Heck, they could even add analog audio. It'd be an improvement from the frankenstein way of having to hook a computer up to a TV...
 
strike1555 said:
Yay. Another absolutely pointless type of connector. Why does Apple insist on doing this? It's going to be a huge failure just like Firewire.
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Oops, you must have meant to post that in your alternate-universe account.

In THIS world, firewire was very succesful and was, besides its computer uses, a very important video standard on all kinds of broadcast decks and cameras.
 
Small White Car said:
Oops, you must have meant to post that in your alternate-universe account.

In THIS world, firewire was very succesful and was, besides its computer uses, a very important video standard on all kinds of broadcast decks and cameras.
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Still is too! (I don't know if anyone has tried downloading a 16GB compact Flash card of photos via USB2, then by Firewire - I have, and there's not enough hours in the day for me to ever class USB as even close to useful for data transfer)
 
Scrap it all and work on Light Peak for EVERY type of connector (except power of course). The only time an "all for one" attitude would work.
 
paulerskine said:
This is (almost) great news. If Apple or VESA or whoever would include digital audio in this little port (think HDMI style) then it would be perfect. I don't understand why they haven't included this feature yet. Heck, they could even add analog audio. It'd be an improvement from the frankenstein way of having to hook a computer up to a TV...
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My ATI card offers audio and video through HDMI to a TV ;]
hdmiaudio.jpg
 
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