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On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:57:28 -0500, Rin Stowleigh
<rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:26:26 -0700, "rms" <rsqui...@MOOflashMOO.net>
>wrote:
>
>>You left out:
>>http://www.pcper.com/news/Displays/CES-2015-ASUS-MG279Q-27-2560x1440-IPS-120-Hz-Variable-Refresh-Monitor
>>
>>Asus is avoiding vendor-specific labelling, a good thing.
>
>When I first read your post, I thought you meant vendor-specific as in
>AMD versus Nvidia, but I see what you mean after reading the article.
>ASUS doesn't want to call the technology "Freesync", they'd rather
>just say it supports Display Port Adaptive Sync.  
>
>And IMO that's a very wise strategy for a monitor manufacturer,
>knowing that of course Intel is going to support DPAS at some point,
>and we will probably even see mobile devices that don't necessarily
>have anything to do with AMD (iPads, phones, laptops etc... pretty
>much anything that displays games or video)  also supporting DPAS.  In
>fact, Nvidia can surely add support with a simple driver update (even
>though they are saying they won't at this point, who knows).  It would
>be kind of silly to sell a monitor as a "Freesync" monitor instead of
>a monitor with DPAS support, because it then would put Asus on the
>hook for compatibility support.
>
>However, that's kind of bad news for AMD, because it means their
>"brand" name (Freesync) of DPAS is kind of worthless in itself.  I
>don't mean their actual implementation is worthless, I just mean their
>own nomenclature that differentiates theirs from anyone elses.

FreeSync is an unfortunate choice by AMD. Brings up visions of a "Free
Lunch". And given the AMD secrecy over releasing any technical spec or
the lack of a challenging demo,  I suspect that the comparison with
the notion of a "free lunch" will be apt. I suppose a great way to
market a few AMD video cards to techno-morons.

John Lewis