Submitted by “Yesterday, Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), the organization behind several display interfaces, has refreshed the DisplayPort Embedded standard, also known as eDP for short. […] The updated standard now includes a new Panel Self-Refresh feature that was developed to save system power and further extend battery life in portable PC systems. This was detailed to us during CES when we visited the DisplayPort booth at CES.”
“Beginning January 1, 2010, all new DisplayPort related standards issued by VESA will be available to non-VESA members through purchase only. DisplayPort 1.2 is the current version of the Standard and recommended for all new designs. It is free to members and can be purchased by non-members.”
https://fs16.formsite.com/VESA/form608559305/secure_index.html
It’s impressive how much the VESA guys love being dicks. To think that it’s because of them that a part of the PC video world is still standard… Between them and MPEG, I start to think that it’s impossible to be in the digital video business and keep a minimal amount of mental sanity at the same time.
Edited 2011-02-17 21:14 UTC
With mini-hdmi for these devices and USB capabable monitors and multi monitor high bandwith USB 3 display ports capability in the future
Do we really need another graphics slot on our devices?
Anyway…Poundsmack long time no hear!!
Edited 2011-02-17 21:19 UTC
Of course
Graphics slots are like CPU sockets, the more the better !
So all that hype about them being an open (royalty free) standard is gone now? Who needs them then, if there is a proprietary HDMI anyway.
From the “Order” link in the linked page :
“DISPLAYPORT STANDARDS
DisplayPort 1.2 [$3,000]
Internal DisplayPort (iDP) 1.0 [$995]
Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.3 [$995]”
Yes, I think the hype is gone. This is definitely too expensive to be just the price of paper
Edited 2011-02-17 21:51 UTC
Maybe it will be as awesome as VLB was….
DisplayPort is just a scam to differentiate TV (HDMI) and Monitors.
Care to elaborate?
I could agree with them if they made the open source driver implementations free. Moreover they didn’t refresh their BIOS extension standards to possibly comply with UEFI and make gfx more standards compliant ( Opengl/Opencl anyone?). I feel their work is consumer un-friendly.
Another one to add to the drawer of Apple’s little white display adapters at work.
The conversation usually goes:
“Do you have a mini-DVI to DVI adapter?”
“Let me see… I’ve got a mini-DVI to HDMI, DVI to VGA, mini-DisplayPort to DVI… and, good gracious, there’s a VGA to Apple Display Connector in here…”
If you go by Wikipedia you will think DisplayPort is completely free, when it is not. While version 1.1a is free, version 1.2 is the one you want on your system.
I wonder if VESA intended from the beginning to charge money for DisplayPort, but started off offering it royalty-free to get people onboard. If true, that is some dirty pool, similar to Apple and their proposed subscription model.
A bit off-topic, but am I correct in thinking a manufacturer has to pay money to VESA to have mounting screws in a certain pattern so they can advertise their monitors as being VESA mount-compatible?
FDMI, 1.1 Flat Display Mounting Interface Ver. 1 Rel. 1[$350] VESA-2006-2 (Item #155)
Yeah, I’m updating the DisplayPort article if nobody has answered my post in the discussion page in one week.
Thanks – the current Wikipedia article is misleading.