YAVCS - Yet Another Video Connection Standard

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060505-6759.html' target='_blank'>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060505-6759.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"If you're shopping for a new or used display, you've got quite a choice of connectors. VGA, DVI, ADC, and HDMI are the primary options, although VGA looks to be dying a slow death while Apple's clever ADC has been end-of-lifed. Soon, there will be a new way of connecting your monitor to your computer, as the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has ratified version 1.0 of the DisplayPort connector. Under development for several years, DisplayPort is capable of carrying a high-definition digital audio signal over the same connecting cable as the video signal. DisplayPort's Main Link (a "high-bandwidth, low-latency unidirectional connection") uses a "micro-packetized" system for both audio and video and provides a smooth 10.8Gbps bandwidth, which the VESA says is capable of accommodating even higher-bandwidth applications in the future as displays support ever-higher resolutions and color depths."</i><br /><br />Maybe I am missing the obvious, but this seems like a solution looking for a problem. I guess I can see that this would simplify things for the total AV newbie in that they would just need one cable to connect a peripheral to a display, but often, you are running the video signal to one device and the audio to another so you are just going to have to split things up anyway.

[Doug Johnson]

Net effect: three years from now, CE manufacturers won't support HDMI any longer (it doesn't support anything higher than 1080p). Just as DVI is being phased out now (because it doesn't carry audio, and most implementations don't support HDMI). Or how component video was supposed to be the way to do HD (but is being killed off because of its lack of copy protection). Makes me kind of mad that the viable lives of these technologies is so short.

Please, guys, just come up with a future-proof standard and stick with it. (DVI and HDMI are too short sighted!) I don't feel like replacing my home entertainment system every couple of years just because it doesn't support the current trend in connectors.

[klinux]

Can't agree more. Something that is physical in nature has to be well thought of. Imagine what one's needs are in 3 years. Triple that at least and that should be one's goal. Look at how long the AC power cord, RCA cable, speaker cable, copper ethernet, fiber standards lasted!