By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Published: August 1, 2007

Little over a year ago, the Video Electronics Standards Association, also known as VESA, announced the approval of the DisplayPort standard, a new license-free state-of-the-art digital audio and video interface which is meant to replace DVI in the PC world. This is what DVI is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

Top companies such as Dell, HP, Lenovo and others have stated to SUPPORT the standard. Taking a step forward in the industry's move to DisplayPort, AMD recently announced reports of successful interoperability testing of a next-generation graphics PROCESSOR with a native DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter. AMD expects to ship the first ATI Radeon graphics sporting the new interface in the early 2008 timeframe.

"AMD has been driving the high-definition transition on the PC with innovative firsts such as integrated HDMI, high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) and our Unified Video Decoder (UVD)," said AMD’s Imi Mosaheb. "We are once again BREAKING new ground in customer-centric innovation by offering increased choice in video and display technologies to our users."
DisplayPort aims to unify and standardize display across the desktop and notebook COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS through a common high-bandwidth interconnect. Samsung Electronics has already announced that will begin production of the world's first LCD monitor to feature the DisplayPort interface in Q2 2008.

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