Research shows HDMI climbing, DVI slipping

by Darren Murph posted Nov 21st 2008 at 5:11PM

It was already made clear that both HDMI and DVI have a struggle on their hands with DisplayPort entering the picture, but new research from In-Stat asserts that HDMI is still on the up and up while DVI is slowing fading away. The report found that HDMI sockets were included on a staggering 95% of all digital televisions shipped worldwide in 2008, which unsurprisingly goes down as "the greatest volume for HDMI in any product." It also found that the "vast majority" of DVI shipments occurred in PC and PC peripheral markets, noting that DVI-enabled product shipments would decline at an annual rate of 30% through 2012; in the same breath, we're told that HDMI-enabled product shipments would increase at an annual clip of 23% over the same period. Now, if only this research would have included DisplayPort, we'd really have ourselves a showdown.

[Via CNET]

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Tags: cables, data, DVI, HDMI, industry, port, ports, report, research, trends

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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shawnmos @ Nov 21st 2008 6:06PM

Is displayport backwards compatible with HDMI?

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squiggleslash @ Nov 22nd 2008 9:11AM

It's not electrically compatible but it is data compatible. That is, you can make a device that receives an HDMI signal (even with HDCP) and connects to a DisplayPort monitor. I believe you kinda sorta can do it the other way around but it gets more complex.

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DisplayPort is unlikely to take off with home entertainment systems like TVs, because HDMI handles TV data without any problems and there are some features of HDMI, such as bitstreaming of Dolby and DTS codecs, that DisplayPort doesn't do, and because HDMI has already entrenched itself in the market.

In the computer market, however, VGA is still the de-facto standard despite the best efforts of those pushing DVI, and it's possible DisplayPort may take off there. DisplayPort supports a lot more "computer" features such as USB.

In terms of data rates, there's not much between them. DisplayPort is about 8-9Gbps, HDMI is fractionally higher at 10Gbps. You're not going to find many screen sizes/depths/framerates that work with one and not the other.

So, bottom line, I'm not sure it'd help the article to include DisplayPort figures. DP is going to be attractive in the computing field if at all (which isn't EHD's area), HDMI is the relevent technology here.

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Evoss @ Nov 25th 2008 4:17PM

HDMI : Best
DVI : Old Sit
DPort : Crap

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Andy @ Nov 21st 2008 7:47PM

This is the first I've ever heard of DisplayPort. I looked it up and HDMI is superior, so I don't expect it to last long.

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zargon @ Nov 21st 2008 10:46PM

Actually, I think as far as specs goes they are about even or Displayport may have the edge. Displayport is also suppose to be a open format, so there are not licensing fees, which can be nice.

That being said, Displayport can go the fuck away, we don't need another damn input because HDMI is perfectly fine. I bought my first HDTV right before DVI came out and it kind of left my high and dry. I have since bought a new HDTV with 4 HDMI, all of which are in use. Since HDMI has all but grabbed market dominance and manufactures will be pissing off and screwing a lot of customers if they for some reason think it is a good idea to switch to displayport.

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Randy @ Nov 23rd 2008 8:25PM

I believe Displayport will supplant VGA and DVI on PC's.

1. Displayport is an open standard and it's Royalty free. (DVI and HDMIis neither.)
2. Displayport has the ability carry data in addditon to a video signal.
3. The interface is small. DVI (not counting Mini-DVI, at least the Standard plug, is not) the PC Mfr's will love space savings.
4. Apple is using it now as well as Lenovo. The others will follow soon.

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