I am just wondering. I think VGA winds up being very useful for older projectors, but DVI?
Isn’t that mostly obsolete with HDMI and DP being so prevalent now and monitors having gone through such rapid obsolescence that they all have HDMI and/or DP ports already.
I presume that there must be some industrial basis for this, especially considering the screw in connectors, but don’t industrial applications have their own motherboard requirements anyway?
Isn’t DVI the best? High resolution video, analog video, audio? Like real versatile?
And high refresh rate too, there was a post here asking for 2070s with DVI for their 144hz monitor.
But it does seem to have declined pretty quickly. I still use it but in an adaptor because I dont have dvi source and the HDMI does not work it seems on my monitor. I dont really see it on anything anymore.
As for projectors and their VGA continuance. Projectors were often low resolution and refresh rate and colour too soemtimes so never needed anything that DVI offered, they could just carry on with the comparatively crap VGA. By the time they got any better they could and did just go straight to HDMI.
Dvi was nice in between everything because it could be converted to anything else as it supported analog and digital and all ranges of resolution, audio or not, and refresh rates and colour spaces.
Although with DVI-D that conversion to analog is impossible.
Not everyone lives in the untied states… Hdmi is expensive and displayport adds cost to low end equipment.
This. DVI provides solid 1080p 60Hz and higher from a cheap, convertible port that was standard on all monitors 5 years ago. It supports a massive range of resolutions and the connector can be hit with a mallet and still work.
I broke a HDMI port once by twisting my monitor to get to the back. Not a great connector and requires licenses.
Ideally all connectors will go usb-c soon and I can get rid of my drawer of old adapters.
Fixed that for you. Now instead of just display adaptors, I can have adapters for display, USB, thunderbolt, 3.5mm, Ethernet, FireWire, serial, telegraph, tin can string, braile and hieroglyphics all in one “convenient” ball of crap in drawer for the one time I might need them.
Exactly- USB-C would replace them all to become the One True Connector…
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