DisplayPort: Apple throws weight behind emerging display standard

“Apple didn’t just introduce new laptops Tuesday; it also introduced a new term to the vocabulary of Mac users—DisplayPort. The Mini DisplayPort found on new MacBooks, the refreshed Macbook Air and 15-inch MacBook Pros replaces the DVI and mini-DVI interfaces found on older models. But is this another proprietary debacle like Apple’s failed Apple Display Connector (ADC) interface? No,” Peter Cohen reports for Macworld.

“DisplayPort is, in fact, an open industry standard promoted by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), the same group that determines standard sizes for flat panel display mounts, for example. And Apple isn’t the only company supporting DisplayPort. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, AMD, Nvidia, Intel and many other companies have thrown their weight behind the standard, so we’ll be seeing a lot more DisplayPort-compatible devices in the coming years,” Cohen reports.

Full article, with just about everything you’ll want to know (and then some) about DisplayPort here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Martin” for the heads up.]

52 Comments

  1. Apple Display Connector (ADC) interface wad not a proprietary interface, ADC was also known as DVI II, a DVI spec that would carry both Video and Power to monitor, it just never took off in the PC space. Probably because it cost 2 cents more to implement.

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