Samsung unveils World’s First LCD Panel with DisplayPort Video Interface

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Samsung LCD Panel Samsung Electronics has introduced a desktop LCD panel, claiming it to be the world’s first LCD panel with DisplayPort interface that is approved by VESA (the Video Electronics Standards Association). Apparently, DisplayPort will win over DVI, LVDS and eventually VGA.

The 30-inch LCD delivers 2,560 x 1,600 pixels with a 10-bit color depth at the speed of 10.8Gbps over a single port through DisplayPort interface. This allows the latest Samsung LCD to eliminate the use of the two DVI (Digital Visual Interface) ports.

Brian Berkeley, vice president, Samsung LCD Business, who is leading the company’s DisplayPort development efforts, shares, “We are pleased to be the first LCD manufacturer in the world to create a panel with a DisplayPort interface. We have received many inquiries from computer integrators interested in DisplayPort-based LCD panels, which prompted an acceleration of our R&D for this first DisplayPort LCD panel.”

More specification of the DislayPort-enabled monitor are:

  • Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (S-PVA) panel with 180-degree viewing angle
  • 1,000:1 contrast
  • 6-ms response
  • 300cd/m2 brightness
  • Offers a total of 1.07 billion colors

    • The LCD monitor uses a four-lane, 2.7 Gb/s per lane interface chip adding up to a total bandwidth of 10.8Gb/s.

    According to sources, in the original DisplayPort working group, Samsung was the only LCD panel maker who participated. Samsung plans to start the mass production of the latest 30-inch in the second quarter of 2008.