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ASUS ProArt PA328Q 32-Inch UHD Monitor

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It's another IGZO panel monitor so far as I can tell and it's an upgraded version of the current 32-inch design from ASUS, which is based on Sharp's own monitor. What's new? Well, HDMI 2.0 and Mini-DisplayPort are in the rump of this new monitor, so it should perform well with whatever 4K setup you have. Keep in mind, this is just the first of the wave of soon-to-be available in the Summer/Fall 4K displays, so keep your eyes and ears open over the next few months.
 
Yep, here they come. I'm surprised they're not enabling Thunderbolt 2 support as well when LG and others are. Sure, DisplayPort and video over TB2 are effectively the same thing, but with an actual Thunderbolt port on the monitor, we could use the optical cables instead of being slave to the unfortunate fact that 4K over DP 1.2 just doesn't work well at lengths much over 6 feet… Not on any cables I've been able to round up… :(
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Yep, here they come. I'm surprised they're not enabling Thunderbolt 2 support as well when LG and others are. Sure, DisplayPort and video over TB2 are effectively the same thing, but with an actual Thunderbolt port on the monitor, we could use the optical cables instead of being slave to the unfortunate fact that 4K over DP 1.2 just doesn't work well at lengths much over 6 feet… Not on any cables I've been able to round up… :(
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Six feet? That sucks. I need more like 30'. Is it possible to convert to and from the optical thunderbolt cable?
 
L. Langer said:
It's another IGZO panel monitor so far as I can tell and it's an upgraded version of the current 32-inch design from ASUS, which is based on Sharp's own monitor. What's new? Well, HDMI 2.0 and Mini-DisplayPort are in the rump of this new monitor, so it should perform well with whatever 4K setup you have. Keep in mind, this is just the first of the wave of soon-to-be available in the Summer/Fall 4K displays, so keep your eyes and ears open over the next few months.
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Not available until the end of the year...
 
Yep, HDMI is superior for cable length. I'm pushing 4096x2160 @ 60Hz to a Sony 4K projector over a 35ft. 18Gbps rated RedMere cable. I don't know of anyone selling them at this length just yet, but it will happen real soon -- days, maybe weeks. The 15 foot 18Gbps HDMI ultra-thin RedMere cables from Monoprice are fantastic, BTW...

As for the Gefen extenders for DisplayPort (and KVM ones too), they're only DP v1.1 and only do 4K at 30Hz. Same with their fiber optic and UTP baluns. I can't say much about it, but I've played with an HDMI 2.0 extender that provided the full 18.2Gbps bandwidth plus gigabit ethernet, audio return and bi-directional IR over dual CAT-6. Works in its current form, but a bit glitchy. This is going to be commonplace stuff in the next year as 4K, HDMI 2.0, etc.. proliferate the market. Just natural progression of the industry. Those fiber baluns and other stuff from Gefen or similar companies will be offering full 4K, DP 1.2 and HDMI 2.0 soon.

Thunderbolt 3, when it arrives in 2016, will actually solve a lot of these current DisplayPort monitor woes. Of course, the monitors will be old and we'll have newer and better solutions by then, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. TB3 will utilize a new connector and will allow itself via an adapter to split into TB2 ports at the far end. So we could conceivably run an optical TB3 cable to our destination, then split it into dual TB2 ports and run a pair of 4K monitors. :)
 
Eric Bowen said:
Jeff what are you using to output the HDMI 2.0 packets?
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I have two pieces of hardware that can output HDMI 2.0 here. One is a pre-release Sony FMP-X10 media player, not sure if I'm supposed to tell since it doesn't ship for about another 30 days, but I'm not under NDA or anything. The other is something that I absolutely can not talk about.

I'm supposed to be getting a Denon AVR-S900W HDMI 2.0 capable AV receiver here any day now. It will upscale any SD/HD input source to 4K, even 4K @ 60Hz.
 
Any idea when GPU boards from Nvidia will get HDMI 2.0? Seems like that would solve a lot of problems with these new monitors having HDMI 2.0
 
Scott Pultz said:
Any idea when GPU boards from Nvidia will get HDMI 2.0? Seems like that would solve a lot of problems with these new monitors having HDMI 2.0
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The 20nm Maxwell cards should get HDMI 2.0. Pascal will definitely have HDMI 2.0 and possibly DisplayPort 1.3.
 
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