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 televisions to Blu-ray players and settop boxes, is now standard on cameras, monitors, and other professional equipment and has created myriad switching and distribution headaches. Other display interfaces, such as DisplayPort, are 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).
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2012-04
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/j18160