Taking Advantage of USB3.0
Many businesses are setting up "graphics hot desks" with a USB 3.0 docking station. For example, conference rooms might have hot desks with dual HD monitors for sales presentations. Each laptop user will install the DisplayLink software, but no additional hardware. Plugging in one USB 3.0 cable gives the laptop owner command over the displays and other USB 3.0 peripherals at the hot desk. Each salesperson with a laptop containing a standards graphics card can run the high-end monitors with no technical assistance. One HD monitor can be used for world-class videoconferencing with a remote customer; the other for a compelling sales presentation.
For more on USB 3.0, please see How USB 3.0 Works and Why it Matters.
Dual High-Definition Monitors and the Speed of USB 3.0
Sales situations, videoconferences, video post-production, architecture, CAD, and geology, and medical diagnostics have something in common: at times, they all require very a high-definition display, and they might need two HD monitors.
If image quality is crucial to you, and you may need dual monitors, then you want virtual graphics from DisplayLink. Now you can get stunning image quality, dual monitor operation, and fast USB 3 connection to peripherals. Numerous manufacturers build products, such as laptop dock stations with DisplayLink technology like the DL-3000 chip set inside. For the DL-3000 product brief, click here.
DisplayLink has stepped into the world of USB 3.0 with ground-breaking technology that enables manufacturers to deliver an amazing resolution of 2048 x 1152, but that’s just with the entry-level chip in the DL-3000 family. Three other DL-3000 chip models take you to a stunning 2560 x 1600 pixels, on dual monitors, with multiple audio channels and other peripherals attached via USB 3.0.
USB 3.0, the successor to USB 2.0, uses cables and receptacles with extra internal wiring that allows video to stream much faster through the cable and run multiple high-definition monitors. Of course, you don’t get this huge gain just by improving a cable. The DL-3000 chips and software (which installs on your PC) are works of genius when it comes to adaptive compression. What you see is an unbelievably sharp image at the maximum resolution your laptop and monitors can handle.
DL-3000 Best Uses
- Video post-production and broadcast
- High-resolution imaging: geophysical, radar, CAD
- Medical image display
- Videoconferencing + demonstrations / sales
- High-end sales presentations