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vivster on 24 March 2017
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JEMC said:
vivster said:

Optical signals get converted back into electrical signals anyway, so on that front nothing would change. The only thing you would need is a connector, there are a wide variety of optical connectors out there already. But I don't see how that would be a problem. You also need new standards for further iterations of DP and HDMI.

I don't know.

If it were that easy, there would already exist this kind of solution for enterprise products where image quality (and without compression) would benefit from the higher bandwidth that optical fibre brings.

There's something more that prevents it from happening.

No. Enterprise does not need high display bandwidth.  Graphical work is either not done in realtime or at very low framerates. Also optical fibre is of course more expensive than copper. That's the reason why it's not where it could be by now.

Gaming really is the only high end application I can think of when it comes to real time data at high pixel density and high frame rate.



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