VESA Standardizes Apple's Mini DisplayPort
Posted 11/11/2009 at 11:18am
| by Florence Ion
Yesterday, the Video Electronic Standard Association (VESA) officially launched a Mini DisplayPort standard, following in Apple’s technology licensing footsteps.
The association also announced that the Mini DisplayPort connector would be included in the next DisplayPort 1.2 update. Though the MiniDisplayPort technology was originally conjured up by apple, the company agreed to license it to VESA to establish a more universal DisplayPort standard.
The new update will be finalized by VESA and will have double the bandwidth capabilities, up to 21.6 GB/s. It will hopefully support multiple monitors via a single connector, 3D displays and higher resolutions, refresh rates and color depths. Vesa has said that all devices using the Mini DisplayPort connected should meet the specifications required by the DisplayPort 1.1a standard and that cables supporting the standard should meet the exact electrical specifications.
The Mini DisplayPort is also getting an upgrade with new support for resolutions up to 2560x1600, which is common for 30-inch displays. Since it’s inception in 2008, Apple has included it in all revisions of its MacBook lineup, as well as the iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro and Apple Cinema Displays.
