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Originally Posted by SnowRipple
@mdp Do you think that incorporating hdmi port into Max and replacing Wifi or usb connection with hdmi cable will provide a big improvement in refresh rate? [...]
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Since you are asking me directly I can throw my 2 cents ; )
In short: of course, I can't wait to see it done.
Some numbers: a base HDMI allows for roughly 500 MB/s. A USB 2.0, for maybe 35 MB/s.
An uncompressed video can easily need 200 MB/s. But with state of the art compression, that can become roughly between 0.05 MB/s and 0.5 MB/s. (BTW: that makes NX interesting: it encodes using video compression... As you may know, the Nomachine NX client does not work on the Onyx firmware, and anyway the server does not transmit perfect timing.)
Video (screen) through USB can certainly be done: it is BTW a specialty of DisplayLink, and non "desktop remote" technology based solutions are probably doing something similar.
So, it's a matter of implementation (retrieving data, compressing data etc.). But if you have raw power and specialized hardware, you do not need clever tricks (edit: although USB remains interesting and important as a backup, for flexibility, to cover those devices without HDMI-in - notably, the existing ones - etc.)