Over the past year, there has been a tremendous amount of exciting news that foreshadows a huge market for flat-panel displays (FPDs). Liquid-crystal-display (LCD) desktop monitors alone are forecasted to grow from less than 150,000 units in 1997 to nearly 10,000,000 units in 2002, according to Stanford Resources. But this exciting market opportunity is at risk. Currently, there is a movement to change from the CRT-centric 15-pin VGA interface available on virtually every PC sold today to a new digital interface. The digital interface should provide the best image quality at the lowest cost for FPDs such as LCD monitors, but may put at risk the broad com-patibility that the current standard provides. This standards transition is further complicated by the fact that the industry has not yet defined the digital-interface standard toward which we are moving.
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