Dell is going to go for a new connection in its LCDs - Displayport is smaller, needs less components to work and can be daisy chained etc.
It will still support all hd resolutions etc as well
Win Win since it is also apperently cheap and so means Dell can make monitors that look like this.....

http://www.gearlog.com/2007/05/dell_shows_off_superslim_displ.php

that does look pretty sweet in a Minority Report kinda way

id have one fo sure

Thing on the sides if anyone is wondering are the speakers using the glass/object vibration thing to get the sound

clever technology but Id rather have the screen without the perspex reflectyness of annoyance TM round the edges.

Quote from: SteveFclever technology but Id rather have the screen without the perspex reflectiveness of annoyance TM round the edges.

They probably will at the end of the day when I think more feedback like that comes back to them, concepts always over the top a little aint they

itd be cool if it were frosted round the edges (and clear over the screen )

My word that looks ugly. I assume the final product will be nicer though.

i do hope this isnt a proprietory connector.  I loath converters, and even Apple have bowed under to consumer pressure.

I am liking connections being smaller though
hd, this now, usb, scart to be gone, ide replaced with sata...

finally start getting rid of chunky connections and thick cables, now all we need is more bluetooth like stuff increased or more things able to run through the same cable to reduce the billion wires behind my pc

Quote from: Beakeri do hope this isnt a proprietory connector.  I loath converters, and even Apple have bowed under to consumer pressure.

If you read up on it, dell will ship with the displayport connector to dvi and you can buy the dpt to dpt seperate if you have something that handles it.

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Quote from: Beakeri do hope this isnt a proprietory connector.  I loath converters, and even Apple have bowed under to consumer pressure.

If you read up on it, dell will ship with the displayport connector to dvi and you can buy the dpt to dpt seperate if you have something that handles it.

yeah, but if they really do want t o get a decent foothold across the board they will have to open up the standard.  I vaguely remember reading something about an Evolution of DVI with similar specifications, and that interested me because itll be an open standard.  

Quote from: Beakeri do hope this isnt a proprietory connector.  I loath converters, and even Apple have bowed under to consumer pressure.

The connector is created by VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) so will no doubt be appearing on graphics cards and monitors from many companies.

According to wikipedia:

QuoteThere are several companies stated to support DisplayPort: AMD, Intel, Dell, Genesis Microchip, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Molex, NVIDIA, Philips, Samsung, and Tyco Electronics.

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Quote from: Beakeri do hope this isnt a proprietory connector.  I loath converters, and even Apple have bowed under to consumer pressure.

The connector is created by VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) so will no doubt be appearing on graphics cards and monitors from many companies.

According to wikipedia:

QuoteThere are several companies stated to support DisplayPort: AMD, Intel, Dell, Genesis Microchip, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Molex, NVIDIA, Philips, Samsung, and Tyco Electronics.

cheers for that, I was goign to look for it and post that

Apparently it will be in number of formats on the back
some will go with dvi hd and this, some hd and just that(eventually) etc and there will be cables with the end on it, at end of day it will filter out to this and hd ports and connectors and dvi phased out but then with the adaptors like vga.
Imporant thing though is that you can have this and hdmi ports on the monitor and not take up as much room, and have the power brick under you desk

Still thing for me is the power brick, look at the 360 - something needs to be done to come up with power that is not as big and small power units (laptops) that do not get so hot and blow up ^^

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Quote from: Beakeri do hope this isnt a proprietory connector.  I loath converters, and even Apple have bowed under to consumer pressure.

The connector is created by VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) so will no doubt be appearing on graphics cards and monitors from many companies.

Yes indeed.  The standard was approved last month.

Nexus youre talking as if the thing is going to walk over everything.  HDMI has barely settled into peoples living rooms and is heavily intergrated into current multimedia.  

But I can certainly see it taking over as a PC monitor connection.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/04/05/displayport_1.1_approved_by_vesa/