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Re: Big LCDs



On 28 Apr 2007, at 23:09, Neil Wrightson wrote:

>
> Is there something different hear that I'm not up to speed on. I.e.
> 1) What is a "Dual Link DVI"
> 2) Will one DVI only support up to 1280 * 800?
> 3) Do you need a video card with two DVI outputs?

2560x1600 (@60Hz or whatever) is beyond the maximum data rate of the
single (*) serial link in a normal DVI connection. These big panels
have to have the bitstream split over 2 serial links in order to
provide enough bandwidth. I think it's actually called "Dual Data
Link" (DDL).

(*) It's actually 3 serial links - one for each of red, green and
blue, and 6 for DDL.

Some graphics cards have one DDL DVI port, and one SDL (ie single
data link) DVI port, so can drive one display up to 2560x1600 @60Hz,
and one display up to 1920x1200 @60Hz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI
  explains it quite nicely...

Jim



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