Displayport 1.4 Approved standard

8K is getting

 closer.

In September 2014 the DisplayPort 1.3 standard was approved, which was supposed to be a real impetus to the conquest of the manufacturers of video formats in high definition. We are talking about 4K and 5K, formats that surely part of our daily lives, but a leisurely get support from the iron-manufacturing companies.

Meanwhile, the association VESA officially approved next-generation DisplayPort 1.4 standard. The main focus of the development is made on the unification of the connectors, and options for further scenarios are just two:

use format USB Universal Type C;

preference towards SuperMHL connector options which allow you to transfer video to 8K resolution with a frame rate of 120 fps.

Support 8K format provides a new default standard. Developers are well aware that the next step will be the demand of the consumer market transition to 4K format to 8K. In addition, the first models of TVs that support 8K already presented 85-inch LV-85001 from the Japanese from Sharp ($ 133,000), 98-inch 98UH9800 of Koreans * LG and the panel with the same diagonal of Samsung * - model UN98S9.

The new standard supports data transfer in HDR-format, which is only planning to "bring to mind» AMD company (in the version of DisplayPort 1.3), announced the release of Polaris architecture. In addition, DisplayPort 1.4 supports a number of additional features:

video transmission with high dynamic range (HDR);

32-channel audio with a sampling frequency of 1536 kHz;

Feed 8K 60 Hz with a compression of the DSC (the quality is not affected).

Meanwhile, in the field of higher resolutions, other than iMac with Retina 5K display, Apple boast of nothing. Due DisplayPort standard restrictions, image output to the vaunted 5K-screen monoblock not received. Last year the company introduced the first device in the series, equipped with port USB Type C - 12-inch MacBook. Perhaps this is the first step on the way of the American manufacturer to conquer and SUHD UHD formats.