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My problem was I always found it to have weird holdovers in terms of UI from hardware integration days of colour correctors. Hopefully that is gone now. But for

My problem was I always found it to have weird holdovers in terms of UI from hardware integration days of colour correctors. Hopefully that is gone now. But for example you used to not be able to just drag your full screen viewing window to a second monitor - they forced you to get their little hardware PCIe card. Given that most Nvidia cards will do 10 bit colour now with the studio drivers I hope they have rethought this.

dylan604 4y ago
They prefer for the GPU cores to be doing math rather than displaying image. That's why you can get away with the GPU not being in a full lane width slot. The little PCIe did more than just send out an HDMI signal back then as well, as most of it went to an SDI or even older analog component BNCs. No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.
- angry_octet 4y ago
  NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI cards, ~2008-2020.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    holy jeebus, i had never heard of this board. but a quick search found this bit of oddity: "DVI-to-DVI Connection Connect one end of the DVI cable to the DVI connector on the SDI Output card and the other end to the "north" DVI connector on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600/5600 card as shown. The SDI output will not work if the cable is not connected to these two connectors." So it was an external pass thru type system that just converted DVI to SDI. They joined the daughter card via external oddball cable rather than making an internal ribbon cable connection.
    - angry_octet 4y ago
      Yep, it was just to convert computer graphics into broadcast TV world. Probably powering a bunch of TV stations weather broadcasts for the next decade.
      - dylan604 4y ago
        That's still a few rungs up from the older skool tech of a large round table top with the different gauges for things like temp/pressure/humidity/etc on it that rotated at a set speed with a stationary camera mount so that the gauges would spin underneath it. For a lot of small cable companies this was the "weather" for that cable company. It would be setup at the head end where all of the various satellite dishes were pulling the feeds. An ex-coworker's family was responsible for that existing, so I used to hear all sorts of "back in the day" themed stories about it.
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- digitallyfree 4y ago
  My AMD W8100 has a SDI port. They're only seen on the workstation cards, not the consumer ones.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  > No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors. Not much need for them, either. As long as you have an HDMI output (or a DVI output with a passive HDMI adapter cable), there are HDMI-to-SDI converters. Blackmagic sells 'em for like 70€ apiece - I've disassembled one, it's essentially a HDMI decoder, an FPGA that does the protocol translation and an SDI encoder/transceiver.
dharma1 4y ago
You don’t need it anymore. I think it was more the OS not being able to colour manage properly, or have SDI out

dylan604 4y ago

They prefer for the GPU cores to be doing math rather than displaying image. That's why you can get away with the GPU not being in a full lane width slot. The little PCIe did more than just send out an HDMI signal back then as well, as most of it went to an SDI or even older analog component BNCs. No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.

angry_octet 4y ago
NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI cards, ~2008-2020.
- dylan604 4y ago
  holy jeebus, i had never heard of this board. but a quick search found this bit of oddity: "DVI-to-DVI Connection Connect one end of the DVI cable to the DVI connector on the SDI Output card and the other end to the "north" DVI connector on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600/5600 card as shown. The SDI output will not work if the cable is not connected to these two connectors." So it was an external pass thru type system that just converted DVI to SDI. They joined the daughter card via external oddball cable rather than making an internal ribbon cable connection.
  - angry_octet 4y ago
    Yep, it was just to convert computer graphics into broadcast TV world. Probably powering a bunch of TV stations weather broadcasts for the next decade.
    - dylan604 4y ago
      That's still a few rungs up from the older skool tech of a large round table top with the different gauges for things like temp/pressure/humidity/etc on it that rotated at a set speed with a stationary camera mount so that the gauges would spin underneath it. For a lot of small cable companies this was the "weather" for that cable company. It would be setup at the head end where all of the various satellite dishes were pulling the feeds. An ex-coworker's family was responsible for that existing, so I used to hear all sorts of "back in the day" themed stories about it.
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digitallyfree 4y ago
My AMD W8100 has a SDI port. They're only seen on the workstation cards, not the consumer ones.
mschuster91 4y ago
> No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors. Not much need for them, either. As long as you have an HDMI output (or a DVI output with a passive HDMI adapter cable), there are HDMI-to-SDI converters. Blackmagic sells 'em for like 70€ apiece - I've disassembled one, it's essentially a HDMI decoder, an FPGA that does the protocol translation and an SDI encoder/transceiver.

dharma1 4y ago

You don’t need it anymore. I think it was more the OS not being able to colour manage properly, or have SDI out