Illegal to convert between "X" and HDMI now? (With just a cable - clarified)

[taltamir]

The fee is 4c plus a flat fee of $10K for high volume manufacturers, so for someone like nVidia/AMD it's less than a cent per GPU. And this is per device, not connector/port etc., if your TV has 6 HDMI inputs, it's still ~5c fee for it. The fees are quite reasonable, though I still prefer open standards like DP.

4 cents each? that's abnormally low... it seems you are right:
http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/terms.aspx

Although it's actually 15 cents/device - 10 cents if it displays logo - 1 cent if enforces HDCP DRM.
and its 10k / year not one time payment.

So I was wrong on how much it cost... although I would estimate that a huge reason why it is so cheap is because it has to compete with royalty free standards. Non-free standards ALWAYS start out completely free to implement, then the price goes up as they achieve market dominance.

It is also plausible that the DRM enforcement discount is part of why its so cheap, perhaps they are getting money from interest groups.

 

[iCyborg]

I have two monitors where HDMI is simply incapable of fully driving them. One is a 1920x1080 monitor of which HDMI is simply unable to push its 120Hz refresh rate. The other is 2560x1440 but using HDMI will automatically reduce the resolution to 1920x1080.

Heck, HDMI still falls short of dual-link DVI in that regard.

HDMI 1.3 and 1.4 devices can drive 1080p@120 and 2560x1600@60 (DP 1.2 can do 2560x1600@120Hz I think). So you're probably using an older device/cable.

 

[masteryoda34]

But they're NOT eager. Very few nVidia cards come with DP, because it's not on the reference card.

Well, it's a chicken-and-the-egg scenario. Based on past presentations, they've seemed anxious to me, but of course they know 98% of their market is still using VGA/DVI/HDMI.

 

[Destiny]

I have two monitors where HDMI is simply incapable of fully driving them. One is a 1920x1080 monitor of which HDMI is simply unable to push its 120Hz refresh rate. The other is 2560x1440 but using HDMI will automatically reduce the resolution to 1920x1080.

Heck, HDMI still falls short of dual-link DVI in that regard.

What kind of HDMI Cables do you have and where did you buy them from?

If you have a real High Speed HDMI (Licensed and Certified) it should be easily pushing 2560x1440... I have a 1920x1200 moniter and it never reduced to 1920x1080 and my accountant has 2560x1440 monitor using the same HDMI cable as I am and he loves it that he can get that resolution via HDMI cable..