Red Ray integrating Light Peak?

[ericyoung]

One potential con with Lightpeak is also one of its pros. The demo videos I've seen allow single cable daisy chain for a two way communication between any and all connected devices - very cool.

But if you unplug any one of those devices, anything "downstream" is also cut off. Which means that in reality, we probably won't want to daisy chain too many dissimilar devices on a single chain. While computers may have two or more Lightpeak I/O ports, they surely must be thinking of Lightpeak hubs, to allow star topography hookups, unless a ring topography is possible too.

Just musing aloud...

 

[Tom Wardrop]

Just to clarify for those who are unaware, light-peak is protocol agnostic. Unlike USB for example which is both a physical and protocol standard, light-peak is only a physical standard. Any digital protocol can work over Lightpeak, which includes HDMI and DVI.

What Intel are trying to do, is create a single physical interconnect standard, which is something which makes a lot of sense. HDMI, DVI, USB, PS2, Firewire, DisplayPort, SATA, etc, are all simply protocols, but each has their own propriety physical transport layer. It's a waste. Why keep re-inventing the physical layer when really all you want to do is invent a protocol? Of course, lightpeak only allows this because it uses optical fibre rather than copper. It would make little sense to use a chunky copper cable like that used by HDMI, for your mouse and keyboard. With fibre however, the amount of data the physical fibre can carry is virtually infinite as it depends completely on the technology at either end of the cable.

 

[jake blackstone]

It would make little sense to use a chunky copper cable like that used by HDMI, for your mouse and keyboard.

That is until someone steps on it...

 

[Elmer Tenkink]

I used to be a projectornist (now internet marketing & research), I am not totaly up to date. But I personal found dvi pretty solid. My experience is that change goes slowly in the movie theater industry. As that it takes time to have ROI on 10 200 000 dollar projectors. Light-peak or thunderbolt they call it now requiers a direct intergration in the graphiccard. So it depence alot on barco (they license there projector graphic boards to alot projector brands).
I geuss if red reprecent the redray at cinama expo and would be around the 10 000 price tag. You'll see the redray pretty fast in the local movie theater.