Dealing with Consumer Display Interfaces in a Professional World

For years, advances in professional video displays trickled down into the world of consumer electronics. That's all changed now, as advances in display technology now ‘trickle up’ to professional lines from the consumer world. One such feature is the High Definition Multimedia Interface, or HDMI. This copy-protected video/audio/data interface, originally intended to connect TVs to Blu-ray players and set-top boxes, is now standard on cameras, monitors, and other professional equipment and has created a myriad of switching and distribution headaches. Other display interfaces, such as DisplayPort, are now evolving into ‘multifunction’ ports that carry video, audio, data, Ethernet, serial device control, and even high speed serial data. Alternately, all of these functions are being combined with HDMI into structured wire interfaces (HDBaseT).

Published

2011-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001061

ISBN

978-1-61482-940-9