Logitec DisplayLink-certified USB-to-DVI dongle handles QWXGA

DisplayLink may not have the rampant following you probably thought it would when it was originally introduced, but we'd credit much of the indifference to the inability of most adapters to hit the magical 1080p mark. Up until now, most USB-to-DVI dongles couldn't support resolutions higher than UXGA (1,600 x 1,200), but at long last Logitec has stepped in to provide an alternative that blows right on by 1,920 x 1,080 and stops at QWXGA (2,048 x 1,152). If this here product looks like just the thing you and your spare monitor have been waiting for, feel free to hit the read link and place your pre-order for ¥12,980 ($136). But hey, don't blame us if your graphics card gets envious.

[Via Akihabara News]

[bhtooefr Posted Aug 12th 2009 9:56PM]

He's not saying to encode everything H.264, he's saying to send existing H.264 content to the card for direct decoding rather than decode it in software.

[Agent007 Posted Aug 12th 2009 4:31PM]

yeah 2048x1152 really "blows right on by" 1920x1080

[evilspoons Posted Aug 12th 2009 8:50PM]

I wish they'd stop using these damned word descriptions for screen resolutions and just WRITE THE NUMBERS.

I can see why they did VGA (640x480) and SVGA (800x600) back in the day, but dammit, just tell me how many pixels are there now.

I don't get why QWXGA is called that - QVGA is "quarter VGA" i.e. 320x240 - shouldn't QWXGA be "quarter WXGA" or 683x384?

[bhtooefr Posted Aug 12th 2009 9:58PM]

Q can be either quarter or quad. (H can either be half or hexadectuple - quad quad.) Yes, it's confusing. Especially when the letters don't match up to what they claim to mean, or there's multiple definitions (try regular WXGA on for size.)

[Wwhat Posted Aug 12th 2009 11:50PM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QXGA#QWXGA

[Wwhat Posted Aug 12th 2009 11:51PM]

I agree though, they should not use Q with 2 definition in the same category, that's plain stupid.

[Wwhat Posted Aug 12th 2009 11:48PM]

It's obviously for powerpoint presentations.

[pb Posted Sep 7th 2009 3:14AM]

Startech had a full-HD USB2DVI converter already. It only works at 16 bit depth and a bit sluggish at times - forget games or movies -, but it works (at least mine does!)

@Ahmed Alzayani: your maths are right, but only if the screen is fully rendered in every frame. :)

[Pies Posted Aug 13th 2009 10:54AM]

I thought Logitec was a Logitech KIRF...