If they were using standard connectors for the display, why would having long life span be useful? I can just use a newer one (better specs) when time comes and can swap with a new one from another vendor if needed be.<p>I spent this weekend creating a small micro-controller system (freescale uC) with an attached tft lcd+touch, the latter cost me less than a 1&#x2F;4 of this display and uses standard connections and readily available datasheets.<p>In their own words, the raspberry pi display uses interface signals that most other manufactures shunned due to several issues (EMI,etc) and their connector is hard to find on any other sbc currently in the market.<p>The display is huge compared to the raspberry pi board, what is the use case, considering the low resolution? Why go through all the trouble of using the connector on the pi instead of its other standard hdmi port ?