Question Why DVI???

[igor_kavinski]

When we moved a couple months ago, I left my old Sun 13w3 trinitron CRT monitor for the new owners, because it was too heavy to bother with.

Jackpot for them if they find a good buyer for it.

 

[aigomorla]

old Sun 13w3 trinitron CRT monitor

Must of been a hell of a workout.
Did you feel the burn in your muscles when you lifted that.
I had a Sun GDM-5410 20" or 21" (i don't even remember which one it was.. i know it was a 2X) and was the major object of jealously out of all my friends.

I still can't believe i could lift that sucker, and that it most definitely easily weighed more then my LG G2 65" which now i whine and complained like my dog asking for treats when i had to wall mount it.

 

[tcsenter]

A lot of security video and professional, industrial AV products still use BNC. There is even digital over BNC/Coax now so they don't need to replace their cable installations, which were significant investments for some premises.

What would HDCP have to do with DVI falling out of grace? Supported it from the beginning. I thought HDCP was required by protected content over certain resolutions? Or was it too easy to circumvent?

 

[eek2121]

HDMI is designed for media consumption (TVs) and contains DRM (HDCP). Vendors pay a royalty for implementation.

Displayport is designed for PCs. It used to be royalty free. However IIRC it isn’t anymore due to supporting HDCP.

Displayport supports a number of cool features that practically nobody takes advantage of.

I still have monitors that take VGA and DVI. Sometimes I actually use them.

Oh god no... OLED has its bucket of issues, especially with autodimming if your using multi screens, and its always need to screen cleaning when the thing goes to sleep for X amount of min.

I had one, and im so glad i went over to VA, and moved the OLED to a Shield TV setup.

No issues out of my Alienware OLED outside of a Pixel refresh needed every 4 hours of usage which does not bother me.

No issues with my LG C1 either.

Have had both since their launch dates. Not going back. OLED is the future.

 

[aigomorla]

No issues out of my Alienware OLED outside of a Pixel refresh needed every 4 hours of usage which does not bother me.

Wait til you get a second monitor.
Each time the stupid thing goes to sleep, all your windows will move over to a non oled and you need to arrange them all over again.

Single monitor usage OLED's are great, i admit it.
Multi monitors, its a absolute nightmare.

Auto dimming is also my bane.

Note tho, microLED... not Mini LED, full on MICRO LED, will replace OLEDs for the PC workspace, as they offer superior HDR, and has all the benifits a OLED has without screen burn in.

But the technology costs way too much at this moment, and not many people are investing in it, as OLED's technology has gotten really cheap.

Reminds me of the ever great battle of Blueray for HD-DVD.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Note tho, microLED... not Mini LED, full on MICRO LED, will replace OLEDs for the PC workspace, as they offer superior HDR, and has all the benifits a OLED has without screen burn in.

But the technology costs way too much at this moment, and not many people are investing in it, as OLED's technology has gotten really cheap.

Reminds me of the ever great battle of Blueray for HD-DVD.

MicroLED reminds me more of Canon SED screens. Some things are just never economically competitive. Big MicroLED 4K screens are about $100,000, and shrinking them really won't improve cost.

They cost so much because they need over 24 Million individual separate LEDs, to be fabbed (different wafer chemistry for each subpixel color) and then they all have to be individually assembled and electrically connected. It's a production nightmare. I see lots of companies working Transfer/Placement, but this is far from a solved problem, and even when "solved" it wont be cheap.

Don't pin your hopes on MicroLED on your desktop, I doubt you will see MicroLED screen for under $10,000 by 2030.

 

[kschendel]

Must of been a hell of a workout.
Did you feel the burn in your muscles when you lifted that.
I had a Sun GDM-5410 20" or 21" (i don't even remember which one it was.. i know it was a 2X) and was the major object of jealously out of all my friends.

I still can't believe i could lift that sucker, and that it most definitely easily weighed more then my LG G2 65" which now i whine and complained like my dog asking for treats when i had to wall mount it.

The Sun monitor was one of the classic 15" models, not as heavy as the 5410. I sold my 20-incher when I sold the Ultra 60.

At one point, I had an early pre-trinitron color monitor but I can't remember the brand. That sucker was close to 100 pounds.

 

[tcsenter]

They cost so much because they need over 24 Million individual separate LEDs, to be fabbed (different wafer chemistry for each subpixel color) and then they all have to be individually assembled and electrically connected. It's a production nightmare. I see lots of companies working Transfer/Placement, but this is far from a solved problem, and even when "solved" it wont be cheap.

So basically we're talking a product that will be aimed at the Levinson and McIntosh type "audiophile/videophile" market. Don't forget the $5K CAT5E cables