[GTALUG] 40" 4k Philips Monitor for $699.95 at BestBuy, Jun. 8 and 9 only

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:59:47AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> - TV sets have multiple HDMI inputs (nice for my use cases) but
>   monitors usually only have one DP input

I have a monitor with 2 displayport inputs as well as 2 HDMI.
Not that unusual I would think.

>   I would like a KVM switch so that I can use multiple computers with
>   one set of Keyboard, Video display, and Mouse.  Anything more modern
>   than VGA is hopelessly expensive.  Second-best is multiple video
>   inputs and a pile of keyboards and mice.

Yes KVMs for digital are certainly more complex and more expensive.

> My TV is a stopgap.  I will replace it when a new monitor is enough
> of an improvement.  If I didn't have it, the Philips monitor would be
> a very attractive choice.  Again, it is at a price that one could
> consider buying now and upgrading in a couple of years.
> 
> I drive my TV with an MSI GeForce GTX650.  I have it hooked up to a
> DVI port, through a DVI-to-HDMI dongle.  I don't remember why it
> didn't work when hooked to the video card's HDMI port.  And it only
> works on one of the two DVI ports, if I remember correctly.  Oh, and I do 
> get sound through HDMI even though that isn't part of the DVI spec.

I think all nvidia cards since the 200 series have supported that audio
for HDMI over DVI extention.  I find it very handy.  I do have to make
sure the BIOS is set to do HDMI audio rather than SPDIF or it won't work.

> Nouveau won't drive my monitor.  I try every few months.  So I use the
> proprietary nvidia driver.

Weird, but I do the same thing for hdmi through DVI, although only
at 1920x1200.

It may be that you need the binary driver to do the high res stuff.
I seem to remember reading about them adding some 4k tiling feature that
was required for it to work.

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Len Sorensen