Why is DIVA better than existing video standards?
There are a number of reasons including… Networking Capability – Fundamentally, today’s digital interfaces are point-to-point connections that are limited in their ability to be networked. DIVA is offering the ability to connect multiple source devices to multiple displays, to monitor and control various digital home appliances from the TV in the living room, and to organize various personal and mobile entertainment devices in the same home network. Bulk Data Transfer – While today’s interfaces have bi-directional channels such as I2C or CEC, these back channels are limited in bandwidth and very slow. In the case of DVI, there is no back channel. For HDMI, there is the CEC interface which operates at 1Kbps. For DisplayPort there is the AUX channel which operates at 1Mbps. DIVA enables a high speed bi-directional data channel that can operate at speeds over 1Gbps. With that much data, real communication and data sharing between consumer electronics is possible and new applications can e
