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TWO NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE digital inputs will vie for
your monitor next year. Silicon Image and Intel are touting
the upcoming UDI input standard, planned to be backwardcompatible
with digital DVI and the popular high-defi nition
consumer electronic input HDMI. Over in the other camp,
display-industry association
VESA seeks to establish the
DisplayPort standard. Display-
Port’s impressive roster of supporters
includes Dell and HP.
These digital, PCI Express–
based inputs may not appear
on products until 2007, so it’s
not yet possible to pick a performance
winner.
But that doesn’t mean you
have to forgo a new monitor
until the dust settles. Chris Connery, vice president of
desktop monitor market research at DisplaySearch, says,
“The industry has shown that compatibility is its top priority,
so it’s not going to abandon those who have a DVIbased
monitor today.”