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HD Link and 30″ Cinema display
What is the current status of the HD Link and the 30″ Cinema display.
I have just scoured the Blackmagic site, and there is no mention of the 30″ display.
Does the HD Link scale to this monitor, or does it crop (making the 23″ display still the best solution).Thanks –
Bob Zelin -
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Hi Bob,
The short answer is that it crops.
HDLink connects to LCD displays with a DVI-D connection, eg the 20 and 23″ Apple displays. The 30″ Apple display has a dual-link DVI-D connection and so HDLink does not support that. However the forthcoming Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Studio have dual-link DVI-D monitoring output built-in so you can use them with the 30″ display.
We experimented with connecting a HDLink to the Apple 30″ display and found that the display automatically doubles the size of all video received from the HDLink. This isn’t very good for monitoring as a lot of a HD1080 image extends outside of the area of the display as it is attempting to display HD1080 at x2. You can kind of use it but I don’t think it is a very useful combination for most work and we don’t support that configuration.
The DVI-D monitoring output of the Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Studio will support the use of single-link DVI-D and dual-link DVI-D displays.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design
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