 So we're here at the display port and who are you? Bob Kreps, I'm a consultant to Vesa. And what are you wearing right now? These are Dacarys smart glasses product and they're an augmented reality device that incorporates cameras, microphone, infrared sensor and accelerometer. And with this little computer that runs it over here that could be in the pocket or something? Yes. I'm trying to clip on your belt and this is intended for industrial applications. What is the wrong kind of Android or something else? I'm not sure. I think it might be Linux based. Linux, something Linux in there and then so this is all kinds of augmented reality and this is using the display port? Correct. It uses a type C connection, a USB type C to do, to provide display port video power to the headset. They have some magnets too here, this is a special connector to keep it. So it won't fall out? It won't fall out? Yeah. So type C to type C? Yes. Using the display port protocol or something? It uses display port alternate mode over type C and it also provides power and gets data from the sensors back to the CPU over the type C connection. Nice. And there's a whole bunch of other stuff you're showing here. You have a Nintendo switch that's using down here, there's a type C that does it through this box. It converts it to an HDMI. Correct. So, but for it to work is a display port? It uses display port to transfer the video data which is then converted to HDMI in the dock. All right. Then you have all these little adapters right here. Yeah, those just show various ways that type C can be converted to other formats like VGA, HDMI, whatever you need. And right now there's Samsung, LG, and Huawei, this for example the Mate 10 right here, Mate 10 Pro is doing a full, what's it called? It's display port alternate mode and it also, again it uses, it does video data charge power and other USB data all through the single type C connection. So this monitor has a type C input and that's what enables all of the function. So the Samsung dock has USB connectors in HDMI. So right here it does USB and HDMI out and Ethernet even, that's pretty cool. So in this case the monitor is the dock. We have a C to C cable. The monitor itself has some USB ports on the side. Who's making this monitor? This is from ISO. This one is from HP. It provides similar function but the HP does not have the USB hub built in. So it'll do video and it's charging, but there's no place to plug a flash drive into it. Right. Like there is with the ISO. They're also doing some too. Monitors? Yes. They're also doing a phone that connects on the display port. Yeah, this is an LG V30 and I have a V20 from last year with very similar function. So this V30 doesn't have a desktop mode, it just clones what you see here. It may have a desktop mode. But right now it's not active right here and I haven't heard about it. I know that at least it's Samsung and Huawei are doing that. That's pretty awesome. It looks like a real productivity desktop right here when it's active in that mode. This one also. Yeah. They launched a new dock also at the show with the new S9. I don't know what's different about the new dock, but it's just slightly different design. Yeah, if you connect to the Type-C on the… this is an S8. So if you plug into this, it will do video out, but it doesn't do charging and so forth. Just for example, if I plug it into this monitor, it won't actually do any of those functions because of the way Samsung implemented it. So it's not going to do the desktop mode? Actually it does on this one. It depends on the monitor. It won't on the HP, but it does on the ISO. Okay, they didn't trigger it or something. Maybe there's a way to trigger it. And it always says the connection is HDMI regardless. It's using DisplayPort right now. It's plugged into a Type-C input, but it always comes up as HDMI. So apparently in their firmware, they've said video connection will be HDMI, no matter what it is. And then we look at where here is a very long DisplayPort cable. It's called OptoDP. What is that? This is a 30 meter optical cable and the transceivers are made by CoSemi. These are prototypes. CoSemi does not make cables. They are partnering with someone else to bring this to market. So this is a 30 meter and I have a 10 meter here. And this is at the end you put the connectors? Right. There's an optical transmitter and receiver. So DisplayPort monitors provide a signal called DP power at the monitor so you can have a power device at both ends. That's powered by the computer and the other is powered by the monitor. And this is the compression technology that's been used. And here is, is this something new that's called, right here, Display Your World, Display HDR 400, 600, 1,000. What does that mean? So Display HDR, this portion of the logo is a new standard. Display HDR defines performance metrics for monitors that support high dynamic range. And high dynamic range can be thought of, a simple way to think of it is 10-bit color. So it expands the color range. But it also defines contrast ratio and peak luminance. So there's three levels of the standard. So 400, 600, and 1,000 are terms to define the peak luminance or brightness in NITs. 1,000 NITs is a pretty bright display. It's very bright, yeah. It's possible that it will go even further, right, in the future. It could. The member company is a visa who developed the standard, felt that these three levels were adequate. Now there is discussion about coming up with some new specifications for handheld devices because they don't need to be quite that bright. All right. And then you're showing something off about that, or? Well, we have a demo video here from ASUS, and I apologize for the jerky playback because I'm doing it from a laptop instead of the desktop that I intended to. So it doesn't play very smoothly, but in this video you'll see that they change the color range from 8 to 10 bit while it's playing. We can see an example of that here at the moment. And so you see how this area isn't really black, it's kind of black, but not. And now when we switch to high dynamic range, you get very black. Nice. So this is the 8K display. On the market, right? Yes. 8K from Dell. Yes, and I can connect that if you'd like to see it. And that's part of the 1.4 standard to support 8K? It uses the high bitrate 3 that's in the current standard, the 1.4 standard, yeah. That's how you can get 8K at 30 hertz. That's what bitrate? That's... It's 8.1 gigabits per lane times four lanes, so it's a total of 32 gigabits. All right. And that's done from a Type-C connector to a plug-in. So we come out of a Type-C connector on the laptop, and go through a C to DP cable. And that one can do 8K? Yes, it can. That cable. Nice. And this monitor, if you have two outputs, two display port outputs, like you'd have to say on a desktop graphics card, will operate at 8K at 60 hertz. So that's a feature of the monitor. That's a nice display to have. Yeah, it is. So then it looks really cool, all the 8K stuff on this display. Yeah, so we can try showing an 8K image. There it is. Nice. Everybody has a 32 megapixel camera, right? Yes. And people can just get one of those and see the quality. That's one of the primary uses, yeah. So let me go down to the information panel here. Is there any announcement about the future version of display port? 1.5, 2.0? Well, the... Oh, here we go. So you can see it's running at 8K at 30 hertz. And where it says maximum 60 hertz, you can get to that if you had two. Is that the next version of display port? 8K 60? No, that exists today. But with two cables, right? Yeah, so display port 1.5, the VESA has formally approved the formation of a group to discuss that. And obviously, higher bandwidth is one consideration. Another area for discussion is the current encoding that uses about 20% of available bandwidth. It's given up to a method called 8V10V that's used to sort of scramble the data so you don't get a long string of ones or zeros, so you can keep it synchronized. There's more efficient ways to do that. So we made, instead of losing 20%, one of the ideas that's being discussed for the next version of display port, we cut that down to well below 5%. So there's more to it than just trying to make the signals faster. We can also make them more efficient.