DisplayPort 2.0 Published For 3x Increase In Data Bandwidth Performance

[milkylainen]

Oh please. Can't we just have one transmission protocol for everything now please?
I know of the attempts, but it is still very much divergent.
Each contemporary generation of all these protocols all use the same base SerDes available on the ASIC market for transmission anyway.

[numacross]

DVI was video-only, it never had the ability to carry audio.

It's possible to use a DVI-HDMI cable and get audio that way, at least on nVidia cards.

[numacross]

Are there pros/cons that make one better suited to TV or Monitor, or do we have two similar standards just for historical reasons?

HDMI has licensing and royalty fees per unit. DP is a VESA standard that is license and royalty free. However a membership in VESA is required to access the documents (starts from 5000$).

[torsionbar28]

Is DP also encumbered with the crappy licensing/costs that HDMI has?

No, DP is free AFAIK.

[kaprikawn]

Is DP also encumbered with the crappy licensing/costs that HDMI has?

[torsionbar28]

I'm not an expert, so I'm happy to be corrected. It used to be that DVI was for monitors, and HDMI (because it could carry sound) was for TVs. Then DVI got support for sound. Then DisplayPort replaced DVI.

DisplayPort and HDMI both transfer sound/video and are both fairly small in size (both have mini ports as well), and both handle really high refresh rates and resolutions.
Are there pros/cons that make one better suited to TV or Monitor, or do we have two similar standards just for historical reasons?

HDMI, which replaced component (Y Pb Pr) video, is for consumer living room devices.

DisplayPort, which replaced DVI, is for computers. (DVI was video-only, it never had the ability to carry audio).

[SyXbiT]

I'm not an expert, so I'm happy to be corrected. It used to be that DVI was for monitors, and HDMI (because it could carry sound) was for TVs. Then DVI got support for sound. Then DisplayPort replaced DVI.

DisplayPort and HDMI both transfer sound/video and are both fairly small in size (both have mini ports as well), and both handle really high refresh rates and resolutions.
Are there pros/cons that make one better suited to TV or Monitor, or do we have two similar standards just for historical reasons?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DisplayPort 2.0 Published For 3x Increase In Data Bandwidth Performance

VESA announced their first major update to the DisplayPort interface in three years...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DisplayPort-2.0-Published