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Mini DisplayPort (mDP) is a standard announced by Apple in the fourth quarter of 2008. Shortly after announcing Mini DisplayPort, Apple announced that it would license the connector technology with no fee. The following year, in early 2009, VESA announced that Mini DisplayPort would be included in the upcoming DisplayPort 1.2 specification.
Often now replaced by Mini DisplayPort. Female Micro-DVI port (rightmost) on MacBook Air: Micro-DVI: DVI-D dual link Replaced with Mini DisplayPort. DMS-59: twin DVI (for two monitors via an adapter cable) Apple Display Connector: Combines DVI, USB, and power. HDMI connector plugs (male): Type D (Micro), Type C (Mini), and Type A.
The data is transmitted via the cable connecting the display and the graphics card; VGA, DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI are supported. [ citation needed ] The EDID is often stored in the monitor in the firmware chip called serial EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) and is accessible via the I²C-bus at address 0x50 .
DisplayID is a VESA standard for metadata describing display device capabilities to the video source. It is designed to replace E-EDID standard and EDID structure v1.4.. The DisplayID standard was initially released in December 2007.
VESA's Display Stream Compression (DSC), which was part of early DisplayPort 1.3 drafts and would have enabled 8K at 60 Hz without subsampling, was cut from the specification prior to publication of the final draft. [71] DSC support was reintroduced with the publication of DisplayPort 1.4 in March 2016.
The USB4 specifications make no reference to a minimum feature set for its DP Alternative Mode functionality, but Thunderbolt 3 does. In practice, Intel's family of TB 3 controllers requires at least DisplayPort 1.2 at HBR2 speeds (to support 4K60 output), but is also available with up to HBR3 speeds according to the DisplayPort 1.4a specification.
DisplayPort is royalty-free, though patent pool administrator Via LA attempts to collect a $0.20 per-device charge for a bulk license to patents it regards as essential to the DisplayPort specification, [217] while HDMI has an annual fee of US$10,000 and a per unit royalty rate of between $0.04 and $0.15.
Mini DisplayPort connector. The Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP or mDP) is a miniaturized version of the DisplayPort audio-visual digital interface.. It was announced by Apple in October 2008, and by early 2013 all new Apple Macintosh computers had Mini DisplayPort, [2] as did the LED Cinema Display.