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News Release from: Display Technology | Subject: DisplayPort LCDs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2007
LCD panel is first with next-generation
interface
Samsung's new 30in LCD incorporates a DisplayPort interface that transmits graphics data at a total datarate of 10.8Gbit/s.
Samsung Electronics has developed the world's first LCD panel using the DisplayPort next-generation video interface Sanctioned by VESA (the Video Electronics Standards Association), DisplayPort will serve as a replacement for DVI, LVDS and eventually VGA
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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For Samsung's new 30in LCD, the DisplayPort interface transmits graphics data at a total datarate of 10.8Gbit/s.
This speed enables 2560 x 1600 resolution with no colour smear.
By using a transmission speed more than double that of today's interfaces, Samsung's new LCD only requires a single DisplayPort interface, instead of the two DVI ports now used.
In a joint undertaking with Genesis Microchip (Santa Clara, California), Samsung developed its 30in panel using a new four-lane, 2.7Gbit/s/lane interface chip.
The interface technology processes 2560 x 1600 pixel of graphics data at up to 10bit colour depth or 1.07 billion colours, a feat that would normally require at least three DVI or four LVDS interface chips.
"We are pleased to be the first LCD manufacturer in the world to create a panel with a DisplayPort interface", says Brian Berkeley, Vice President, Samsung LCD Business, who is leading the company's DisplayPort development efforts.
"We have received many inquiries from computer integrators interested in DisplayPort-based LCD panels, which prompted an acceleration of our R and D for this first DisplayPort LCD panel".
Samsung was the only LCD panel maker participating in the original DisplayPort working (standards) group formed in 2004.
Samsung's new 30in LCD also offers the company's proprietary Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (S-PVA) liquid crystal technology for 180-degree viewing angle, and 300cd/m2 brightness.
Mass production of the 30in panel is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2008, and the product will be available from Display Technology, Samsung's sole UK industrial TFT distributor.
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