DisplayPort to offer fibre based products
Luxtera gets the go ahead to design Fibre Display Port technology
It would surely be expensive but no more of a hassle than trying to boost HDMI signals for long cable runs.
http://www.luxtera.com/news_press_2007_0417.html
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DisplayPort takes a big step forward to being the next major High-bandwidth, high-speed display standard
Digital display standards are anything but stabilized right now, with a total of three standards vying for the spot as the main one in the industry. DisplayPort, HDMI and UDI have all been formed and designed with the intention of replacing all current display standards. The most popular standard being used right now is DVI. The ancient VGA DB-15 standard, which is second in popularity, is still being used in a large number of applications.
The industry's video display standards group, VESA, recently approved DisplayPort 1.1 as an industry standard, marking a significant milestone for the interest group and all the companies involved. Now, a company called Luxtera has received the go-ahead from VESA to develop DisplayPort technologies using CMOS photonics. Luxtera is hoping that its development into the DisplayPort standard will help replace copper cables with optical ones as the medium for transferring high-bandwidth digital video signals. According to the press release:
The DisplayPort task force and subgroups, led by Luxtera and other member companies, unanimously approved the addition of Hybrid Devices to the specification as a standard alternative solution to copper cables. High performance optical video interconnect based on Luxtera?s CMOS Photonics technology is now possible with the addition of Hybrid Devices to the standard resulting in an improved visual user experience.
According to Luxtera, no other video standard offers the advantages of DisplayPort. Luxtera is confident that without its participation, DisplayPort would still only be limited to a slower copper standard. Eileen Robarge, group leader for the Luxtera DisplayPort task force said that optical technology will be the future of display interconnects.
"Optical technology, particularly single mode technology, can most effectively address the longer reach market needs for digital signage, projectors, imaging, quiet office and digital home and support much higher performance picture quality for the end user at both short and longer distances," said Robarge.
As of right now, all current mainstream video standards use copper-based connections. UDI is currently on the drawing boards and is posed to replace DVI and VGA at the same time according to Silicon Image. An important fact to note is that Silicon Image sits on the boards of both the HDMI and UDI interest groups and previously indicated that HDMI and UDI are not meant to compete with each other -- both technologies however have many overlapping underlying technologies.
DisplayPort takes a big step forward to being the next major High-bandwidth, high-speed display standard
Digital display standards are anything but stabilized right now, with a total of three standards vying for the spot as the main one in the industry. DisplayPort, HDMI and UDI have all been formed and designed with the intention of replacing all current display standards. The most popular standard being used right now is DVI. The ancient VGA DB-15 standard, which is second in popularity, is still being used in a large number of applications.
The industry's video display standards group, VESA, recently approved DisplayPort 1.1 as an industry standard, marking a significant milestone for the interest group and all the companies involved. Now, a company called Luxtera has received the go-ahead from VESA to develop DisplayPort technologies using CMOS photonics. Luxtera is hoping that its development into the DisplayPort standard will help replace copper cables with optical ones as the medium for transferring high-bandwidth digital video signals. According to the press release:
The DisplayPort task force and subgroups, led by Luxtera and other member companies, unanimously approved the addition of Hybrid Devices to the specification as a standard alternative solution to copper cables. High performance optical video interconnect based on Luxtera?s CMOS Photonics technology is now possible with the addition of Hybrid Devices to the standard resulting in an improved visual user experience.
According to Luxtera, no other video standard offers the advantages of DisplayPort. Luxtera is confident that without its participation, DisplayPort would still only be limited to a slower copper standard. Eileen Robarge, group leader for the Luxtera DisplayPort task force said that optical technology will be the future of display interconnects.
"Optical technology, particularly single mode technology, can most effectively address the longer reach market needs for digital signage, projectors, imaging, quiet office and digital home and support much higher performance picture quality for the end user at both short and longer distances," said Robarge.
As of right now, all current mainstream video standards use copper-based connections. UDI is currently on the drawing boards and is posed to replace DVI and VGA at the same time according to Silicon Image. An important fact to note is that Silicon Image sits on the boards of both the HDMI and UDI interest groups and previously indicated that HDMI and UDI are not meant to compete with each other -- both technologies however have many overlapping underlying technologies.
It would surely be expensive but no more of a hassle than trying to boost HDMI signals for long cable runs.
http://www.luxtera.com/news_press_2007_0417.html