hi I'm Bernie Thompson I'm the founder
of pluggable technologies and I wanted
to show you our exciting new adapter
that enables connecting or K displays
onto any Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC that
has a USB port and the PC that we're
showing it on today is actually the
surface 3 tablet so we have a surface 3
connected off of that we have a
pluggable USB 3 hub it's the USB 3 hub
10 C 2 which is our top-of-the-line 10
port hub with charging off of that we
have a pluggable UGA 4k DP which is our
new 4k enabled USB graphics adapter with
a display port interface which lets you
get to some really cool new generation
of displays that are 4k capable and off
the other side we have actually a
prototype adapter that we're not
launching yet but we wanted to give you
a sneak peek of which is really the same
thing with HDMI out and here we have an
HDMI 4k display and here we have a DP 4k
display both of these displays are at
3840 by 2160 resolutions so a huge
number of pixels so what's so cool about
this is we've got three screens here so
this is the Windows screen resolution
control panel you probably can't see it
but it's showing those resolutions there
the surface 3 screen itself is 2160 by
1440 and so we can just simply drag
between these and make use of all of
this huge amount of screen real estate
so you know regular Windows dialogues
show quite small but if you've got a
browser up you're able to control the
DPI that browser to kind of make it fit
you know whatever is good for your eyes
increase the font size or get really
small to fit a lot on the page same
thing over here where you've got a bunch
of kind of images up we can shrink that
down and you know fit a whole bunch of
images on there and you know if we were
really were doing stock trading you know
we're able to have a ton of information
here on the screen at one time on this
is using the same display link
technology that we use in all of our
other USB graphics adapters and docks
except it's the very latest display link
DL 5500
set which is really the first adapter
that's available worldwide with that
chip in it and it's the first display
link chip that supports 4k resolutions
these monitors actually have come down
quite a bit in price already they're
already in the halfway point to a
thousand dollars or in that range and
the prices will only obviously drop over
time what do you need to know about this
well one note about performance with 4k
you're talking here about four times as
many pixels as you would have with a
1080p screen so if you picture a normal
1080p monitor it would fit in basically
a quarter of this that's a lot of extra
pixels that need to get processed by the
CPU sent out over the USB bus so one of
the things you'll notice is performance
is pretty good here but as I move around
this window you notice just a little bit
more lag than you might be used to if
you're a display linked user on 1080p
you know we always give the warning that
you know USB graphics is awesome for
kind of business applications and web
use the kind of things we're showing
here and we always warn that it's not
good for 3d gaming or motion video where
basically you're looking for perfect
pixel updates across the entire screen
so good for stock traders good for
programmers good for anybody who is an
information worker and needs to have a
lot of Windows up at one time maybe
working on a document or sub graphics
design work where this many pixels is
really helpful and the wonderful thing
about USB and about the display link
technology is not just limited to a
single 4k display we can keep attaching
displays we only have two of them
attached here but we could actually just
buy additional adapters plug them into a
hub like this and be able to connect at
least six or more for this generation of
display link chip that supports the 4k
modes it is Windows 7 and Windows 8 only
so this is the first of our products
that we've actually dropped Windows XP
support on so if you're running Windows
XP you'll want one of our existing other
adapters like the UGA 165 or the UGA
3000 that use the splay link first or
second generation ships
all support XP no problem this one with
4k support Windows 7 Windows 8 and 8.1
only and even though the adapter that we
have here the UGA 4k DP is DisplayPort
out only you can actually use a
DisplayPort to HDMI converter in order
to also display to an HDMI monitor you
have to be really careful though because
those DPD HDMI converters come in all
sorts of flavors and you'll want one
that really does support this kind of 4k
high res mode which can sometimes be a
little tricky to find but if you've got
a monitor that has DisplayPort input you
don't need a thing just get the UGA 4k
DP and you're ready to go connecting one
or many 4k monitors to any windows 7 or
windows 8 tablet or PC like the surface
pro 3 hope you find this as exciting as
we do and if you have any questions at
all feel free to comment below or just
email us at support at pluggable comm
thanks