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Monitoring over USB 3.0

Monitoring over USB 3.0

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Monitoring over USB 3.0

- Rob, I have to admit, when you told me that USB 3.0 was a monitoring option, - Yeah. - I had never heard of this before, I mean, I use it for hard drives all the time, I use it for peripherals, and connecting some DSLR cameras, but a monitor? - Yeah, so USB 3.0 video monitoring is something that is relatively new, and it's kind of two parts to this. There's obviously the driver, or sort of the software that runs on your host computer, and the developer of that is a company called DisplayLink, and you can download DisplayLink drivers for the Mac or the PC. Now once you have the software, Rich, the second part of it is obviously having the DisplayLink-compatible device. In a DisplayLink device, there's actually a little chip in the monitor, that sort of compresses this data back and forth, from the monitor and the software, and there's some sophisticated stuff going on, but the benefit to the end-user is, one cable, one USB 3.0 cable, connected from the host computer to the monitor…

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