DVI begins to DVDIE
28 Jan 2008 | 15:40 GMT
All things must come to pass. Gulp
THIS YEAR MARKS doom, aye doom, for the DVI standard, market research firm In-Stat has warned.
The firm said that DVI faces hellish competition from HDMI and Displayport and will show “a steep decline” during the year of Our Lord 2008.
112 million devices shipped in 2007 but by 2011 that will drop to three million.
Brian O’Rourke, a senior analyst at In-Stat, said: “HDMI’s success continues to be enormous.” He reckons 90 per cent of digital TVs used HDMI in 2007.
The DVI demise is partly due to several large multinationals, including HP, Sony and Toshiba, cruelly ditching DVI and favouring the new kid on the block.
So if you have any compassion in your heart, shed a little tear for DVI. [Stop that blubbing. Ed.] µ
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