News Samsung announces first LCD panel with DisplayPort

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07/30/samsung_announces_first_lcd_with_displayport/1

The first monitors to feature DisplayPort connections have been announced by Samsung.

 

Couldent they think of a more kickass name than DisplayPort.
Anyway sounds good for better quality screens. But of course all new tech is priced way out of my range

 

LOL, I am still using VGA/D-SUB or whatever you want to call it... and I should think a lot of people are in the same situation.

 

So exactly how much bandwidth can DisplayPort cope with? Anything around 3000 pixels wide? Let's hope the signaling protocol can get off the ground to the same level as HDMI before monitor makers rush manufacturing.

 

Isn't DisplayPort regulated by multiple companies? What I'm trying to say is: wouldn't licensing be less for manufacturers than what HDMI is? and wouldn't that benefit, us, the consumers?

 

There is no licensing fee, so it would definitely affect prices of products (in a good way of course).

 

compact and no licensing fee = HDMI death

 

I believe HDMI 1.3 has roughly the same bandwidth. I would say stick with that. Display port has a whole new DRM thing that isn't compatible with anything. HDMI is backwards compatible with DVI, DVI with VGA and is already in billions of TV's.
If a new graphics card has a display port then it probably only has space for one other port... that's not very useful at all.
The only thing Display port has over HDMI1.3 is that it can daisy chain monitors. Sure that sounds cool but how often do people move or add displays so that daisy chaining will matter to anyone.