DisplayPort Format Evolves to Counter Recent Announcement from HDMI Group

In order to counter the recent announced made by the HDMI Group and expected for end of H1 2009, the VESA Group in charge of DisplayPort, also announced evolutions of its format, to be available during Q1 2009, and to be very similar to the future new GDMI format:
- Doubling data transfer speed to 5.4 Gbits/s per line, totalizing 11.6 Gbits/s, more than enough to support 3D video or even higher resolution in 3840x2160.
- A single line will be able to support 2 monitors in 2560x1600 resolution or 4 monitors with 1920x1200.
- As the HDMI, the new DisplayPort will be fully bidirectional
- A new DisplayPort format dedicated to notebook will be released. It is currently unclear if Apple's format will be used and validated as the notebook port, but current unibody MacBook owners expect it for sure.
This new DisplayPort format will maintain its compatibility with DVI and HDMI, and will most likely be adopted by Apple with its future notebook revision.