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DisplayPort Monitors with DP Benefits - Get rid of the 'extras'.

90 points posted to Monitors and Displays by bretta Apr 10

As I see it, one major benefit of DisplayPort monitors was to be reduced complexity and size (mainly thickness), thus reducing cost. Yet your 2408WPF adds in DVI(2), VGA, Composite, S-Video and such, so that this major benefit is unachievable. Keep an HDMI port if you must, but toast all the other dated stuff, please.

And please don't include the extraordinary width of Crystal's glass surround on at least some future models. Kindly just give us a useful range of sizes of funtional monitors with all the benefits of DisplayPort and none of the useless (in my humble opinion) extras.

Now that ATI's FireMV 2260 is almost ready (or the GL V7700, but it's not for me), little will hold me back from purchasing a whole new graphics setup, but I absolutely refuse to buy for the future and still pay for the past... VGA? In 2008? Gimme better, simpler and thinner for a bit less money instead, please. You know... like Dell and others have been saying for years, now. Thx muchly.

jackie_c
Apr 14		 Everyone can start over and discuss the idea. It is ok to disagree, but disagree respectfully. Thank you!
bretta
Apr 14		 Thanks, Jackie, and for any new readers, I'd like to reiterate that I do not mean Dell should change existing monitors, but give us at least one range of new monitors which takes full advantage of DisplayPort (DP) with no older technology. That is, users wishing VGA, DVI, S-video or anything else are unaffected and can still buy these as built-in from all other applicable Dell (and other) lines.

Also, those wishing the thinner, leaner and more efficient DP monitors to be used (likely temporaily) with older computers can - I believe - buy adapters for most older connections, and therefore if and when they update to DP on their lap- or desk-top, will have a completely modern, all-digital graphics setup capable of daisy-chaining two DP monitors for each port. As I understand it, this would mean, for example, that a laptop running DP for the attached screen with a single DP port could run three screens at up to (currently) 2560x1600 right away - an ideal setup at least for me and presumably many others (though I wouldn't likely go beyond 1920x1200 monitors for years). In theory (but perhaps not in practice), using an adapter should be hardly be any more in cost, as you wouldn't have paid for these in the monitor itself in the first place - i.e. pay for internal or pay for external (adapter). And for the many of us never using these old connections, savings should be tangible.

Quick product development with *full* DP benefits would likely greatly help any 'battle' with HDMI and therefore allow more assured adoption of DisplayPort as a true standard - especially important, it seems, since Dell is a prime DP mover. If they also produced an HDTV line with DisplayPort (and HDMI), I submit this would further aid the adoption of DP. DP is a free, open VESA standard - let's allow those who want to, take full advantage of it.

Personally, while I've been mainly buying Dell for over a decade, if Samsung or other brand acceptable to me has a solution like this when I want to upgrade, they'll get my dollars - and this applies even more for my next laptop, where unneeded connections add bulk, weight and more, and certainly won't have me buying unless there are no modern alternatives (very unlikely, I hope).
bretta
Apr 14		 Re comment below: Thank you Jervis - I hadn't noticed. The box above has been edited..
jervis961
Apr 14		 you can go back and edit your comments bretta, just not the idea. There should be a little symbol in the top right corner of the box in which your comment resides. Look right next to the report abuse button.

As for the idea, I think it is a good one as many people don't want or need the older connections so they should offer at least one monitor like this.
bretta
Apr 19		 Dell's coming out with the "good looking and well connected" 30 inch 3008WFP, again with 'Analog, DVI-D (Digital) with HDCP, HDMI, S-Video, Component, Composite, DisplayPort'. It goes to 2560x1600 with an 8 ms response. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/monitor_3008wfp?c=us... .

How about a range of "good looking and lean" 20", 24" and 27" monitors with only DisplayPort and HDMI going to, say WUXGA's 1920x1200 (maybe less - WSXGA+ at 1680x1050 - for the 20") with a ~5ms time? I'd likely buy both a 20" and a 24".
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