Samsung USB Monitor

[jlfirehawk]

Engadget Link


Uses only usb and can use between 3 and 5 at the same time, man that would be sweet but I am curious how well it works.

And I searched and cannot find another post so if this is Re sorry.

 

[xtknight]

Well it's very interesting. Thanks for the post.

Personally, I cringe at the thought of it...

 

[TanisHalfElven]

that would suck. usb is slow enough without boggin it down with a monitor bandwidth reqirement.

 

[ProviaFan]

It could be useful for laptops with static lightweight 2D applications such as Excel, Word, etc. However, I'm 95% sure that it won't support any sort of 3D acceleration, making Aero Glass an impossibility, let alone anything that requires real 3D rendering power. I conclude that despite any claims of "convenience," this is simply not going to take off in the mainstream of computer hardware. It will be relegated to a very small segment of users who find its advantages to outweigh its many disadvantages - kind of like the 4-way fiber optic remote graphics card from Matrox, except at the other end of the cost spectrum.

 

[ElFenix]

weird.


now a wireless monitor, that would be frickin' sweet. i could put the notebook in the docking station on the credenza behind me and have the wireless monitor, keyboard, and mouse on the desk in front of me. awesome.

though, since i have to run the power cable anyway, one more cable doesn't really make much of a difference.

 

[lambchops511]

why would u say u cant do anything 3D?.......none of the monitors i know have 3d acceleration....video cards do.........i dont see any problems it running Aero Glass


assume 19" widescreen, 24-bit colour, 60hz

1440*900*24*60 = 1 866 240 000 bits per second

USB Hi-Speed is up to 480 Mb/s

they must be running some kind of compression/decompression on the fly, i would expect some high input lag

or they might be just sending differences between each frame . ie . update only spots where frame 1 and frame 2 changed......

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: aznium
why would u say u cant do anything 3D?.......none of the monitors i know have 3d acceleration....video cards do.........i dont see any problems it running Aero Glass

Well, that's the point. The monitor only needs a USB connection. Video cards don't send frames out to the USB ports. So obviously the monitor is a combination LCD monitor and GPU by itself.

assume 19" widescreen, 24-bit colour, 60hz

1440*900*24*60 = 1 866 240 000 bits per second

USB Hi-Speed is up to 480 Mb/s

they must be running some kind of compression/decompression on the fly, i would expect some high input lag

or they might be just sending differences between each frame . ie . update only spots where frame 1 and frame 2 changed......

Why do you assume the device needs constant 60fps output? Put the GPU inside the monitor and suddenly you've only got drawing operations (i.e. actual changes) being sent over the USB ports. I assume there's a fair bit of work in the driver to make this appear fluid, though -- hence the 3-5 monitor limitation based on CPU power.