14 DAY TRIAL // The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced the enhancements that will be part of the new DisplayPort standard, providing they get past the evaluation committee. The new 1.1 version adds mainly copyright capabilities and enhances compatibility.
First there's HDCP (high bandwidth digital content protection) support in addition to the standard DPCP support, this time HDCP version is 1.3 and describes the compatibility between HDMI and DVI ports in order to support the same keys set provided by the DCP LLC.
The new version of DisplayPort is set to replace DVI, LVDs and over the next years even VGA in PCs and will provide both internal connections - such as the those integrated in a laptop used to link the output of the VGA adapter to the input of the LCD - and external connections used between standard VGA/HDMI/DVI outputs and inputs found in the standalone LCD/plasma screens.
DisplayPort uses a Main Link, high-bandwidth, low-latency, unidirectional connection supporting isochronous bit transport. One stream video with associated audio is supported in Version.1.0, but multilink is also supported using Auxiliary Channels. The Main Link bandwidth enables data transfer at up to 10.8Gb/s on a total of 4 lanes used for this type of transfer.
The VESA group is also working on producing compatibility standards for cables in order to insure interoperability between input/output ports using the DisplayPort Standard.