Gefen never ceases to amaze us with its high-end, niche product. This time, the company outs the first
USB to DVI HD video card with enough horsepower to drive even a 2K monitor. 2k has a max. resolution of 2048x1152 while still maintaining 16:9 aspect ratio. There are a handful of 23" and larger LCD monitors capable of displaying this number of pixels, but we thought people who may need this kind of display are those willing to spend extra on uber-powerful video cards. Our guess is that Gefen USB HD video card is pretty high end in this respect.
There's no doubt in our mind that Gefen selected DisplayLink DL-195 for the card. With the DL-195's dual core decode engine and second generation DL2+ lossless graphics compression, you could have up to six displays simultaneously. If your notebook has two USB host controllers, then hot-plugging two of these Gefen HD video cards shouldn't be any problem. Each USB 2.0 host should supply enough bandwidth for 2k resolution output provided you don't try to play a full-screen 1080p video on it. The Gefen USB to DVI HD video card goes for $149, and is commerically available now.
By Ian Chiu on May 21st, 2010
