Dell's New LCD Monitors

Gearlog reports Dell Shows Off Super-Slim Display Port LCD Monitor. There's nothing on the Dell site but it's supposedly a report from a Dell launch yesterday. This will apparently be available by the end of the year:



"It will support up to 4x the current HDTV resolutions, allow for integrated peripherals around the display, and will let you daisychain multiple monitors, rather than installing them in a star configuration. Everyting, including audio, microphone, panel I/O and more will all go through a single bi-directional cable. Even better, by eliminating a lot of the electronics used for video conversion, new LCD monitors will be super-thin, and super sleek."

Wikipedia says DisplayPort "is a new digital display interface standard (approved May 2006) being put forth by the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association). It defines a new license-free state-of-the-art digital audio/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor, or a computer and a home-theater system." It's a competitor to HDMI and other companies will have new products based on it. Wouldn't it be nice if standards lasted longer than the product rollouts.