As we talked among the various people that we know across the industry we stumbled upon some people that gave us some preliminary details about [COLOR=#000064 !important][FONT=inherit !important]DisplayPort[/FONT][/COLOR] 1.3. Many of you may know DisplayPort as the cable that powers your Thunderbolt devices or the connector that allows you to power that 4K monster of a display that you've got. All of that is thanks to DisplayPort 1.2 and it doesn't look to be slowing with companies like Samsung, Panasonic and LG planning to use DisplayPort 1.2 connectivity in their 4K TVs. As we mentioned before, [COLOR=#000064 !important][FONT=inherit !important][FONT=inherit !important]HDMI[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] 2.0 was only announced as a standard in September and sort-of-maybe caught up with DisplayPort 1.2 which is actually a 4 year old standard. Now, we've got information about the new DisplayPort 1.3 standard, with lots of new features and improvements over 1.2.
Back in January of this year, VESA announced the Display Stream Compression Standard which set in motion the necessary companies to help ratify the standard, hopefully by the end of this year. Realistically, we will probably see it announced before DisplayPort 1.3 or at the same time. Unlike other image or video compression standards, the Display Stream Compression Standard aims for a lower compression ratio and emphasizes visually loss-less performance, low latency and high data throughput. The expectation is that Display Stream will be visually losses with varying compression ratios depending on the resolution, with mobile getting better compression. The Display Stream compression standard will be used in DisplayPort 1.3 since it is a Low Latency, Zero Artifact compression algorithm. Display Stream Compression is already being used in mobile, but will be used in DP 1.3 because we’re reaching the limitations of copper [COLOR=#000064 !important][FONT=inherit !important]bandwidth[/FONT][/COLOR]. But the ultimate goal of DisplayPort 1.3 is to support 8K resolution, which will either be 7680 × 4320 (16:9) (33.1 megapixels) or 8192 × 4320 (~17:9) (35.3 megapixels).
