Display Connectors Explained! - Tech Tips

so you just come home from buying a brand-new LCD monitor I mean it was about time you got rid of that old 17 inch CRT but what's this you will put it up and there's no VGA connector what are these other connectors what do they do this is another episode of what's the difference DVI vs. HDMI vs. DisplayPort refresher Edition because Jack wrote this whole script before realizing I made this video four years ago with up to four terabytes of massive storage capacity combined with SSD like performance Seagate solid-state hybrid drives are the fastest way to have it all alright so guys for those of you who did watch the older video where we covered all these different display connectors yes we've done it before but yes it was four years ago so you can check that one out by clicking here but this is more of a what's changed since then follow-up vs. trying to reach Fred the same topic that we've already done before so we'll start with DVI okay not much has changed in the past four years for DVI so there's not a whole lot we can say about that it can still output the same basic resolutions there's still DVI and DVID and you can differentiate between the different types of DVI through the pin layout so I does analog D does not but near the end of 2010 some big industry leaders like Intel and AMD said that they would stop supporting analog and legacy technologies like VGA and DVI starting around 2015 why well it's because these older technologies have not been keeping pace with other interfaces like HDMI and DisplayPort in terms of new advancements next up we've got HDMI HDMI stands for high-definition Multimedia Interface that's kind of a dated name now we should have like you DMI for ultra definition yeah anyway it was first released in 2002 when Ultra HD was a twinkle in the eye of some happy television executive somewhere and his perhaps now the most widely adopted digital video interface HDMI carries both audio and video signals and one thing we didn't cover last time around is that there are a variety of different sizes of HDMI connectors so depending on the application you might want full size HDMI which is known as type a for things like TVs and PCs for devices like tablets and video cameras you might want a type-c connector also known as mini HDMI and moving on to even smaller devices like cell phones and point-and-shoot cameras these can be found using micro HDMI also known as type D now there have been many revisions to HDMI throughout the years version 1.4 can support a max of 4096 by 2160 at 30 FPS but 1.4 isn't the most recent anymore just the most common right now hdmi 2.0 was actually introduced in q3 2013 and the main differences here is that 2.0 now supports 4096 by 2160 resolution at 60 frames per second 32 channels of audio and has support for 21 by 9 aspect ratios for that movie theater experience and don't worry you won't need to buy a new cable for version 2.0 because the hardware on the either on the ends the actual connectors are where it's changing not the cable moving on to DisplayPort DisplayPort what a confusing name why did they call it DisplayPort they're all display ports if we put a space but if you have no space then it's a very very specific port called DisplayPort but that doesn't actually mean it only sends video signals either it can actually use to transmit audio and video at the same time just like HDMI each one is optional and there's some auxiliary data that can be transferred it can even carry things like Ethernet and what's cool about DisplayPort is it can be passively or actively converted to other display standards like DVI even VGA and HDMI quite inexpensively alright so what's new with DisplayPort since last time you talked about it well just like HDMI there are different revisions of DisplayPort version 1.2 saw the addition of multi stream transport or MST which allows multiple displays on a single DisplayPort connector it requires monitors that are capable of DisplayPort 1.2 daisy-chaining so plugging from one to another or the use of an MST hub look at that I have a DisplayPort to 3 HDMI hub isn't that fancy alright in version 1.3 though DisplayPort is also now able to support resolutions up to 76 80 by 44 30 sorry not 14 30 that would be too much resolution also known as 8k Ultra HD and that's pretty much it for this episode of what's the difference on DVI versus HDMI vs DisplayPort refresh or addition let us know down below what type of connection you're using right now for your PC and as always like the video and subscribe for more like this from NCIX you don't actually have to like the video for more like this from NCIX even if you don't press like we're still gonna make more so still nice though

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Keywords: HDMI, 2.0, USB 3.0, Type C, Displayport, FreeSync, G-Sync, monitor, vs., DVI, best display connector

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Length: 5min 40sec (340 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 13 2015