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Use DisplayPort

270 points posted to Desktops, Monitors and Displays, New Product Ideas by i.peters 06/06/07

I read something on your website:
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/innovation/en/cto_display_...
About a "DisplayPort" thing that you can connect power, USB and display in a all in one digital interface, great idea, i agree that monitor connection needs a new technology. Now you need to use that technology, get it through development and get it out there before another company (like apple) will snatch it up and it will be the "next big thing".

But when it is developed make it able to transfer a lot of info and have UPnP. Make it so that your monitor can have a display, USB ports, web cam, microphone, speakers and a disc drive (yes, that's right implement a disc drive [HD DVD or Blue-ray] into the monitor so that the tower can be stashed under a desk, but still has the ability to be taken apart and add something like a bigger hard drive or something). Also (maybe) make it so that your monitor can be powered by that cord too, so that there is only one cord. If not and in your tests you end up with melted motherboards, two cords is still pretty good.

But the point is that you should get that all into effect soon and than I think that this could be the next big thing.

PS - Make sure people know about it, ADVERTISE IT!!!

goldy
06/06/07		 Man, a DVD-ROM in the monitor would be great! Then you really could stash away your desktop somewhere where you couldn't hear it and would be out of the way.
andrewpmk
06/07/07		 Apple used to use something like this, it was called the Apple Display Connector. They abandoned it because it was non-standard.
freemenow
Mar 5		 I hope Dell will support DisplayPort and, at the same time, drop the closed HDMI: http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/10077942/Use_DisplayPort_everywhere_dro...
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