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Sapphire shows off Displayport tech
IN RECENT YEARS, the constant whingeing from AIBs over having to pay Sony a licence fee every time they include HDMI on graphics cards has often felt like a mild case of tinnitus; just enough to be annoying - yet not enough to make one want to take up trepanning.
Enter Displayport, with its HDMI-like image quality and ability to carry high-definition audio, and we may just have a contender for the future of graphic card connectivity.
One firm taking advantage of cheaper Displayport tech is Sapphire. But given the 'same-features-but-lower- price' claim to fame, Sapphire's approach to its latest high-end card is far from surprising.
Instead of trying to reduce the number of connectors and, therefore, the price - our friends at PC Partner have gone all out to use every inch of back-plate available to give users something to stick their plugs into.
This picture of Sapphire's latest 4890 Vapor-X performance card clearly shows Displayport alongside HDMI, VGA and DVI.
Sapphire also confirmed that its 4730 is indeed ready to ship, just waiting for the go-ahead from Cap'n KD before setting sail. µ
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I am mistaken in thinking that that card has only one "proper" TFT connector?
hmmm......
You know something is VERY WRONG with the industry when a video cable needs to transfer audio...
for those ill informed the cable sends information in data packets like ethernet does alowing 2 way transmission across the same cable aswell as other data streams other then a pure video transmission.
audio being transmitted across the same cable is not a bad thing when you want to reduce clutter and have speakers built into a monitor or POS display, also with the 2 way transmission it allows webcams to be built into the monitor and transmit over the same cable, all of these things are good since display port unlike HDMI is also an internal interconnect technology and not just a peripheral connection tech which can help reduce the cost of displays and laptops, just read up a bit more on wikipedia or any other site before commenting, if anything even with this HDMI 2 with ethernet built in, Display port is still the better technology for the computer market just read more into it besides it being royalty free
No reason you couldn't hook up a second display to the HDMI connector using a HDMI-DVI cable or a HDMI-DVI converter and your existing DVI-DVI cable. And that's assuming neither of your displays already has a HDMI connector of its own to start with...
If all else fails, most LCDs still include VGA connectors (and there are plenty of lower-cost monitors out there which *only* provide VGA), which I know from personal experience can provide a perfectly satisfactory dual-monitor setup alongside a DVI-native display.
Everybody knows the reason HDMI has in-built audio stream is DRM, so the high definition audio is also protected by HDCP.
It has nothing to do with making your life easier, don't be naive.
...and its audio transport can be convenient in certain circumstances. Setting up an xBox360 triple-screen system for a trade show, I was able to run HDMI - AV receiver - monitor, and AV receiver - speakers, rather than separate cabling from 360 to AVR and 360 to monitor. Simplified setup, lowered clutter, etc.
DRM can bite my shiny metal ass, but audio and video transport on the same cable isn't intrinsically bad.
If you even bothered to read the previous posts and entail the entire context of my post you would realize i was talking purely about Displayport and not HDMI
Get your facts straight first and also Toslink/spdif has DRM that can be enabled to protect an audio stream its just a matter of consumer convenience since people like things that look good and neat but if it helps them with their DRM then they will obviously take that choice aswell as a cosmetic one to please the customers
Let's have 2x DVI ports for the time being (with a single VGA adapter) plus the DisPort and HDMI.
ERCAQL!