Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Apr 2008 22:40 UTC
"Intel's next generation laptop platform, code named Montevina, has a nice feature that remains quite unheraleded, Displayport. Not only does it allow you to drive an external DP monitor, it uses it internally." My take: So let me get this straight. We are finally leaving the days behind where TVs were TVs and computer monitors were computer monitors, entering a brave new world where a TV can be a computer monitor and vice versa, all thanks to DVI/HDMI - and now we're getting Displayport on computers, recreating the wretched OR situation of yore? If I had any hair, I'd be pulling it out right now.
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2005-06-29
According to the wiki article you linked to, it's backward compatible via hdmi/dvi...
It's also royalty free, which means if it takes off, TVs will have DP ports on them rather quickly.