Tuesday, 29 January 2008

DVI on the Decline as HDMI and Displayport Grow

Digital Visual Interface (DVI) facing strong competition from other technologies, including High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and the DisplayPort standard in the PC market, will begin a steep decline in 2008.

According to an In-Stat report, DVI will decline from 112 million device shipments in 2007 to just 3 million device shipments in 2011.

Digital visual interface (DVI) and high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), are related, high-bandwidth, unidirectional, uncompressed digital interface standards.

"HDMI's success continues to be enormous, especially in the Consumer Electronics (CE) segment," says Brian O'Rourke, In-Stat analyst.

"Close to 90% of digital television (DTV) shipments in 2007 are expected to include HDMI. In addition, HDMI penetration of large markets such as set top boxes continues to increase."

The report, “DVI and HDMI in 2007: DisplayPort Looms While HDMI Booms" also found that:

- 143 million HDMI-enabled devices will ship in 2007.

- DVI-enabled device shipments will decline sharply through 2011, due primarily to competition from DisplayPort.

- Several PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) released HDMI-enabled mediacentric notebook PCs in 2007, including Toshiba, Sony and Hewlett-Packard.