So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, VGA/DVI

[Brink]

Alas, poor VGA and DVI; we knew ye well. If those increasingly obsolete connection technologies hold a place near and dear to your heart, you might want to make it a point of going out and picking up a laptop or desktop sometime soon. It's looking like five years from now, DVI and VGA ports will join dinosaurs, VCRs and the Dodo in the pages of the history books, smothered by the more widespread HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces.

Read more at:
Maximum PC | So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, VGA/DVI

 

[FuturDreamz]

Five years is still many hardware generations away.

 

[WolfSoul]

From what I heard DVI has same qualities/properties as HDMI so why would they do that

 

[ionbasa]

From what I heard DVI has same qualities/properties as HDMI so why would they do that

HDMI is a smaller connector, would you rather have 3+ HDMI/ Diplay ports on your GPU, or be limited to 2 DVI ports for multi-monitor setups.

 

[seekermeister]

What I don't understand is that it talks about Intel and AMD support for the interfaces, when I seem that it would be Nvidia and AMD/ATI, since it is regarding the video cards, rather than the CPUs. If you plugged a video card with DVI interfaces into a system with one of those processors...after their support lapsed, wouldn't they still work?

 

[ionbasa]

What I don't understand is that it talks about Intel and AMD support for the interfaces, when I seem that it would be Nvidia and AMD/ATI, since it is regarding the video cards, rather than the CPUs. If you plugged a video card with DVI interfaces into a system with one of those processors...after their support lapsed, wouldn't they still work?

Yes they would, but that GPU would most likely be outdated as by that time the standards would have changed. Also the support would still be there though as the graphics card would be using PCIE. The reason they bring up Intel is because of its integrated GPU on CPU die-are.

 

[alphanumeric]

From what I heard DVI has same qualities/properties as HDMI so why would they do that

HDMI is a smaller connector, would you rather have 3+ HDMI/ Diplay ports on your GPU, or be limited to 2 DVI ports for multi-monitor setups.

Isn't HDMI Video and Audio while DVI is only Video?

 

[kado897]

Digital Visual Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HDMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There you go.

 

[WolfSoul]

Yes it's no audio but for the rest it's supposed to be the same (well actually besides the network capaicty the new HDMI has)

 

[msdos622wasfun]

What's strange for me is the fact that I just put together an Eyefinity setup with my current rig, and I had to use multiple DVI ports to accomplish this (along with a Mini DisplayPort adapter). Because I previously connected my single monitor with an HDMI cable, I kept thinking, "I'm not going backwards, am I?" But quite frankly, the image quality looks the same to me.

 

[PooMan UK]

I'm sure as usual there will be some kind of converter for years to come from VGA/DVI to HDMI or whatever is needed to be converted to in 5+ years time ....

 

[FuturDreamz]

Yeah i got a HDM-DVi adaptor for my old tv at Monoprice a while ago, found it to be pretty useful (though right now i Have my XBOX in that port, and it can;t do HDMI+composite sudio at the same time, so it's component.

 

[DustSailor]

What's strange for me is the fact that I just put together an Eyefinity setup with my current rig, and I had to use multiple DVI ports to accomplish this (along with a Mini DisplayPort adapter). Because I previously connected my single monitor with an HDMI cable, I kept thinking, "I'm not going backwards, am I?" But quite frankly, the image quality looks the same to me.

That is because they are basically the same, with the exception that HDMI adds audio and is a smaller connection. You will get the same video signal from both.

 

[NoN]

Good news, prices for display monitors will drop!!

 

[Bertison]

Digital Visual Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HDMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There you go.

Thanks, that is info I need for a project!

 

[kado897]

Digital Visual Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HDMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There you go.

Thanks, that is info I need for a project!

You are welcome Bertison. Wikipedia is a useful starting point for a lot of research.

 

[MadSupra354]

Even if DVI is old, it's a digital signal, and that's the port most monitor manufacturers make anyway.

 

[FredeGail]

So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear!

 

[MLStrand56]

Discard Perfectly Working Equip?

Yes they would, but that GPU would most likely be outdated as by that time the standards would have changed.

ALL standards are outdated by the time they show up in hardware. Having the "latest standards" hardware, is not a good reason to discard perfectly working equip. How often do you replace your Mobo/CPU? I wish I had a friend like you, so I could buy all his 6-month old computers @ 1/3 price!!!

MLStrand56

 

[carwiz]

The DVI spec can't keep up--It's too slow. It was good in it's time just like VGA replaced CGA. As already mentioned, HDMI includes audio and HS-HDMI is just around the corner. The High Speed HDMI is supposed to support larger and faster screens above the 1080p threshold as well as 3D in native mode. Some TVs were shown at CES-2012 that makes the current crop of the best HD-TVs look like the old VGA. They are near photo quality displays with no lag or motion smear. It will be like looking at live action through a window.

I just wonder how long it will be until broadcasting catches up.