To be fair, you can find HDMI cables for $85 too, and you can get
DisplayPort cables for $6 from Monoprice. I'm not claiming one
technology or monitor is better than the other, just that the cable
point is a non-issue. You just have to shop smart.
Rob
Jonathan Berry wrote:
DisplayPort versus the old ways
Thanks for the heads-up. I had read the wiki page on DisplayPort,
but nothing really caught my imagination. Here's the scheme:
I have a perfectly good HDMI monitor and a cable that cost $4.50.
The per-unit royalty on HDMI is something like 4 cents.
Here's a 6-ft Display Port to HDMI cable that costs
$85:
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=40646&vpn=DP2HDMIMM6&manufacture=Startech.com%20Ltd
Or if I want to get a DisplayPort monitor and pay a mere $24 for
the cable, I'm looking at $400 for a 1920x1200 screen:
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=45554&vpn=NL773A8#ABA&manufacture=Hewlett%20Packard
There are cheaper screens, but they don't have so many pixels. Do you
really want to get an external monitor that's only, say, 1680x1050 ?
I sure hope that DisplayPort has some breathtaking
advantages over the old technology. DisplayPort could turn
out to be the best thing since sliced bread. Or it could
turn out to be a bit of a dud, like hand scanners or DL
DVD+-R disks or DVD-RAM or bubble memory or 5" diskettes
(not to be confused with 5.25" floppies) ....
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