New Consortium to Push UDI and Include DRM

MarsGov writes "Intel, Apple, Samsung, LG, Nat Semi and Silicon Image formed a consortium to promote Unified Display Interface (UDI) as the new standard to connect computers to monitors and TVs. UDI will be HDMI and HDCP "anti-piracy" compatible. "

Comments

Wrong UDI Link

[sgauss]

I think the link to UDI is to the Uniform Driver Interface folks. I think this UDI is different.

Re:doesn't appear to be required, though?

[Andrew_Work]

The link in the summary to the ProjectUDI website appears to be in error. There is apparently some confusion between the Uniform Driver Interface and the Unified Display Interface. The scope for confusion must have been known when the Unified Display Interface project was named.

Project UDI is unrelated.

[Deven]

Why do people insist on reusing names for unrelated things? Project UDI is a technology allowing device drivers to be portable across different operating systems and platforms. Project UDI doesn't address display technologies, much less DRM. This "Unified Display Interface" seems to be something entirely different, and it's unfortunate that they're trying to re-coin the "UDI" acronym. The UDI link in the summary is simply wrong.

On the other hand, Project UDI is a very cool technology that people should be supporting, so I guess the extra exposure could help, as long as people don't confuse UDI (Uniform Driver Interface) with UDI (Unified Display Interface)... *sigh*