General question about what to do when one device has a displayport type connector (and of course there's all kinds of contradictions on the Internet. So...)
I know displayport carries a digital signal, just like DVI and HDMI. But in general I'm finding when your device INPUT is displayport and your OUTPUT is HDMI or DVI, you're out of luck for a simple solution. Good thing that's not my problem.
What I want to do is connect a displayport OUTPUT from a video card like you see here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_fx_580_us.html to an HDMI monitor INPUT, and I can't find an honest straight forward answer trying to just Google it. I know that there are cables available that have male displayport on one end and male HDMI on the other, but does this work all the time or do you need a special "adapter" that does some kind of "conversion"? The terms "adapter" and "converter" are not always interchangeable, so I can't understand the wide array of info out there.
I know displayport carries a digital signal, just like DVI and HDMI. But in general I'm finding when your device INPUT is displayport and your OUTPUT is HDMI or DVI, you're out of luck for a simple solution. Good thing that's not my problem.
What I want to do is connect a displayport OUTPUT from a video card like you see here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_fx_580_us.html to an HDMI monitor INPUT, and I can't find an honest straight forward answer trying to just Google it. I know that there are cables available that have male displayport on one end and male HDMI on the other, but does this work all the time or do you need a special "adapter" that does some kind of "conversion"? The terms "adapter" and "converter" are not always interchangeable, so I can't understand the wide array of info out there.
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