{"id":4013,"date":"2018-04-12T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2018-04-12T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:25:45","slug":"til-displayport-is-cool-and-can-support-multiple-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/gadgets\/til-displayport-is-cool-and-can-support-multiple-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"TIL: DisplayPort is cool and can support multiple monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always seen the DisplayPort and mini-DisplayPort ports on desktops and laptops but never paid much attention to them. I end up using the DVI or HDMI ports usually and DisplayPort was always that &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; port for which I&#8217;d need an adapter &#8211; like DisplayPort to DVI or HDMI. Today I learnt that DisplayPort has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.displayport.org\/faq\/\">very high throughput<\/a> and that DisplayPort 1.2 and above (we are currently on 1.4) supports something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.club-3d.com\/technology.php?id=7&amp;titel=MULTI%20STREAM%20TRANSPORT\">Multi Stream Transport<\/a> which lets you hook up more than 1 monitor to a single port using a hub <a href=\"http:\/\/www.club-3d.com\/en\/cat\/video_splitter\/displayport_mst\/1608\/306\/\">like this<\/a>. That is so amazing! So I no longer have to fuss about with extra graphics cards just to get an extra DVI \/ HDMI port. All I have to do is buy one of these hubs and I am set. Nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always seen the DisplayPort and mini-DisplayPort ports on desktops and laptops but never paid much attention to them. I end up using the DVI or HDMI ports usually and DisplayPort was always that &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; port for which I&#8217;d need an adapter &#8211; like DisplayPort to DVI or HDMI. Today I learnt that DisplayPort has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/gadgets\/til-displayport-is-cool-and-can-support-multiple-monitors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TIL: DisplayPort is cool and can support multiple monitors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[65],"tags":[819],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}