[GTALUG] Cheap 4k TV That Can be Used as a Monitor

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:58:54AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:03:22PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote:
> > The Canadian Tire flyer has a 43" Seiki 4k UltraHD Smart TV (while
> > quantities last - sorry no rainchecks, which usually means, forget about
> > finding this anywhere) on sale at $399.99. I could not find this on the
> > Seiki web site. They have a 42" model though
> > <http://www.seiki.com/content/42-se42um-led-ultra-hdtv>. It will do 60Hz via
> > HDMI 3. I do not know any video cards that will do that.
> 
> Well given the latest standard is HDMI 2.0 with 2.1 under development,
> I suspect HDMI 3 is a typo that should have been HDMI 2.  Would make
> sense since HDMI 2 is in fact what allowed 4k at 60Hz.
> 
> If you have displayport 1.2, it seems this might work:
> http://www.accellcables.com/collections/adapters/products/displayport-1-2-to-hdmi-2-0-adapter
> 
> Or find a card with HDMI 2.0 support already.

Oh it was not a typo, just bad writing.

HDMI 3 is HDMI port number 3.  The display has 3 HDMI ports.  Ports 1 and
2 are HDMI 1.4, while port 3 is HDMI 2.0.  So you can only get 4k 60Hz on
one of the inputs, while you are limited to 30Hz on the other two inputs.

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Len Sorensen