View All Electronics & Accessories Deals.Small Business Partner Outreach Program.Energy, Climate Action & Sustainability.If your worried about this problem, speak to Dell about your concerns. Note that these active converters are not cheap, a cheaper solution could be to buy another graphics card with DP output, assuming one of your PC can be upgraded or its not an expensive high end card that is.Īs for the a monitor going into power save/sleep mode, you'll just have to try it and see. I have no knowledge how well such active converters work. Such active device exist ( two examples of HDMI-DP converters are here and here while a DVI-DP converter is here). You want the source device HDMI signal converted to a DP signal which requires some electronic smarts to do the conversion. However, what you want to do is the other way around so you can't buy just a dumb cable for the job (assuming you even have a DP++ port). The sink device does not have the same type of smarts and can't do any sort of conversion as such. In essence a DP++ to HDMI cable is just a dumb cable as the smarts are at the source end. The electronic smarts in the source end send the appropriate electrical signals to the sink device, either DP signals or HDMI signals depending on which monitor input is used. Now a 'DP++' source device is able to detect if the connected sink device is via a DP or HDMI port (the DP port on a PC that send a signal to the monitor is a known as the source device while the DP port on a monitor is known as the sink device in Display Port speak). Will this get me back to having all-digital quality? Are there any other disadvantages to doing this (I read somewhere about monitors going into sleep mode on DisplayPort being hard to wake up again?)Īnalog input on a large(ish) screen is not so nice when compared to nice digital inputs :emotion-6: Is it possible to get an external converter to convert DVI (or HDMI) from the PC, to the DisplayPort input on the u2412m? However I think there is a visible quality loss using (analog) VGA. The PCs I'm using don't have a DisplayPort output, so one of them is now connected by VGA. The u2412m doesn't have an HDMI input, it has DVI, VGA, and DisplayPort. Previously I had one PC on DVI, and one PC on HDMI going straight to the monitor, and can switch between them using the monitor buttons (no quality loss).

I have a switch to allow keyboard / mouse to control two PCs (work and home).

However there is one area where I'm currently stuck. The click buttons are much better than the touch ones on the 2309, and being able to assign softkeys to switch monitor inputs is great. I have a Dell u2412m monitor, generally very pleased with it (previously used a Dell SP2309W monitor).

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