Meet HDMI’s smarter brother
DisplayPort has made a few timid steps forward since its 2006 introduction; but based on what we saw at CES in January, 2012 might be the year it finally breaks through to mainstream usage.VESA [the Video Electronics Standards Association) designed DisplayPort to be a royalty-free means of delivering digital audio and video signals from a source device to a display. As such, it was intended to allow the retirement of both DVI (the Digital Visual Interface) and VGA (Video Graphics Array), which outlived its usefulness shortly after DVI appeared on the scene. DisplayPort can be used to connect computers to desktop monitors and televisions, as well as internally (in a laptop or all-in-one computer, for instance).
