Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Considering the dongles are active devices with their own custom firmware that gets flashed to with both NVIDIA and ATI custom code, that's likely to remain the situation for the foreseeable future.

So how did that come about, then? How come a converter from Industry Standard #1 to Industry Standard #2 needs per-vendor glue in the middle? Would any of the conversion involved somehow monkey with framerates, sync etc., causing problems for video editing?

And do they actually work with all 30in displays? (Dignan, which display do you have?) The Wikipedia page for Mini Displayport hints darkly that people have had trouble, and there seems to be no shortage of moaning in the reviews on store.apple.com.

Peter