Unified Display Interface

[redbox]

DailyTech posted this: Unified Display Interface Nears Release in their news section. It comments about how soon the new interface is supposted to be out, and also about the competition of display port and the like.

UDI is expected to be finalized at the end of this month. Silicon Image says we should expect to see manufacturers pick up on the new standard almost immediately.

I just wonder how soon this will really become a problem and something we need to look at when picking a monitor or tv.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

considering analog vga is still used even though it requires extra expense to the manufacturer i say its not gonna be in issue for many many years.

 

[redbox]

Ya I guess that is true. It's just one more port though and I don't know if manufacturers will keep some of the older interfaces like vga because of the cost of keeping up with vga, dvi, udi, hdcp, display port, and all the others.

 

[potato28]

That looks alot like a HDMI cable.....

 

[redbox]

Originally posted by: potato28
That looks alot like a HDMI cable.....

They say that it is backwards compatable with HDMI

UDI does not compete with HDMI and is backwards compatible with both HDMI and DVI.

so it doesn't suprise me.

 

[Fraggable]

they say it's compatible with DVI too with adapters. This will be interesting. I heard that Vista will require HDMI to display copy-protected video at full res, I wonder if this will replace it. If so, we could keep our DVI monitors with Vista.

 

[redbox]

Originally posted by: Fraggable
they say it's compatible with DVI too with adapters. This will be interesting. I heard that Vista will require HDMI to display copy-protected video at full res, I wonder if this will replace it. If so, we could keep our DVI monitors with Vista.

Not with the copy-protected video. The monitors have to have a chip built into them that makes it HDCP compliant. I believe it acts as a decoder for the HDCP, but I could be wrong it's been a while since I looked at HDCP.

 

[her34]

why are they making a new interface instead of using dvi or hdmi?

 

[redbox]

Originally posted by: her34
why are they making a new interface instead of using dvi or hdmi?

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UDI addresses the primary issue of cost by redesigning the current DVI standard...Another key cost-saving benefit of the UDI standard is that there are no royalties to pay for using it beyond the initial cost of licensing....In fact, integrating DVI into a chipset or motherboard is so costly that NVIDIA's market manager James Kim stated that it wasn't something his company would do. Intel agrees, as the company has previously stated that "UDI is HDMI optimized for the PC."