Hypothetically, a 4K 3840x2160 screen is the same resolution as a 2x2 matrix of 1920x1080 screens. Is there any software/setup that would let somebody, say, connect a 65" 4K screen and have the OS treat it as 4 distinct 32" screens?
To clarify, I’m not talking about using Moom to just shove windows into one of four corners. I’m talking about a scenario where the menu bar would, for example, be at the “top” of one of the lower displays, so it would effectively be in the middle of the monitor.
Yes, but only in the luxury consumer market. These hardware based tiling systems allow multiple HDMI video streams to be presented on a single TV with each stream showing entirely different content.
This is currently one of the ways expensive 8K TV’s are sold by allowing sports enthusiasts or news junkies to see 4 completely independent 4K content streams on one large TV at the same time.
YouTube TV (the live subscription service) has implemented this in software for sports feeds, and I believe NBC experiented with this for their Olympic streaming channel, but the majority of solutions today are hardware based.
Yeah, it looks like I could theoretically buy a USB-C to quad HDMI adapter, then a quad HDMI to single HDMI multiplexer - but that just seems silly for something that software should be able to handle, and handle better for that matter.
In the realm of video engineering, this would be an option I’d offer. Other companies like AJA I’m sure have something similar.
Now, if I’m understanding correctly this is not what you’re looking for though. This solution is meant to monitor live cameras or the like on a live production, I’m guessing you want a single computer to be the source of the four inputs. Sorry, I’m not sure of a solution there, but if you had some spare Mac’s, you could run them through this, probably need a couple other converters
