What is mini DisplayPort?

DisplayPort is standard for digital display interface. In 2006, it was established by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and was updated in 2007 and 2009. Mini DisplayPort is a connector that implements the DisplayPort interface in a miniaturized manner first announced by Apple® in October 2008. desktops such as iMac®, Mac Mini® and Mac Pro®; Servers and Apple Cinema Displays®. It is also used in various Toshiba® notebooks, including the satellite Pro® S500 and Tecra® A11, M11 and S11. This technology allows either an extended display, so the workspace of the notebook continues thextern monitor or a mirror mode when a projector is connected and one wants to show the audience a view of someone's screen.

Mini DisplayPort is not the first miniaturized display interface. This was preceded by mini-dvi and micro-DVI. DVI means a digital visualThe interface, the standard for digital displays introduced in 1999 and used, for example, on many flat panel monitors. DVI supports the protection of digital content with high bandwidth (HDCP), a means of promoting DRM (digital rights management) by encrypting the content, for example, between a computer and a display on which it would be played. Mini DisplayPort continues to use HDCP in addition to support protection of the display content (DPCP), the Optional DRM DisplayPort system. This led to some errors in trying to play different types of materials from the iTunes store.

using an adapter, either DVI or VGA (video Graphics Array) display or projector can be connected to a mini display. VGA is another display standard presented in 1987. The VGA is analog, while DVI is digital and new flat panel displays can have both output types. Adapters are called mini DisplayPort to the DVI adapter and Mini DisplayPort to the VGA adapter.