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DVI is the Gen X of video connectors
Where do my boys Component and S-Video end up?
in my box of cables, for one!
Me: eagerly digs through a box of old AV cables to see if he has a GameCube component cable
Me only finding SVideo: ☹️
The good news is that you can get third party ones now. The better news is that you can get fully digital hdmi adapters that output over hdmi with not analog conversion in the middle.
With all the rest of the A/V cables, not the computer ones
I remember finding 10 foot combo Toslink S-video cables at Radio Shack for like $5. I bought 3 of them and ripped the S-Video off because the Toslink cable was all I was after. I still think it’s better than most other cables for audio.
HDMI ARC is technically better now
Yeah, ARC is pretty convenient, I use it as well.
My monitors only have DVI and VGA inputs. I’ve had to get adapters to use them with more modern equipment.
I’ve got no reason to replace them. They’re perfectly fine monitors. I’ve had them for over a decade, and I still like them a lot.
Remember DVI?
Remember it? I work on PCs with DVI connected monitors every day.
Hell, I still use VGA for my work computer. I have the display port connected to the gaming laptop, and VGA connected to the work CPU. (My monitors are old, and I don’t care)
My monitor is 16 years old (1080p and that’s enough for me), I can use dvi or HDMI. The HDMI input is not great when using a computer with that specific model.
So I’ve been using DVI for 16 years.
I ran DVI for quite a while until my friend’s BenQ was weirdly green over HDMI and no amount of monitor menu would fix it. So we traded cords and I never went back to DVI. I ran DisplayPort for a while when I got my 2080ti, but for some reason the proprietary Nvidia drivers (I think around v540) on Linux would cause weird diagonal lines across my monitor while on certain colors/windows.
However, the previous version drivers didn’t do this, so I downgraded the driver on Pop!_OS which was easy because it keeps both the newest and previous drivers on hand. I distrohopped to a distro that didn’t have an easy way to rollback drivers, so my friend suggested HDMI and it worked.
I do miss my HDMI to DVI though. I was weirdly attached to that cord, but it’d probably just sit in my big box of computer parts that I may need… someday. I still have my 10+ VGA cords though!
Hell, remember dot-matrix printer terminals?
The year is 2045. My grandson runs up to me with a handful of black cords
“Poppy, you know computers, right? I need to connect my Jongo 64k display, but it has CFONG-K6 port, and my Pimble box only has a Holoweave port, have you got an adapter?”
Sadly I sift through the strange cords without a shred of recognition. Truly my time on this mortal coil is coming to a wrap
Don’t worry, maybe they misjudged the size of the asteroid and 2032 is it.
Cool, I won’t have to update my date formats.
Honestly, that’d be kinda sick. Imagine seeing the wall of fire, coming to cleanse the Earth once again. Hopefully the next ones to inherit it don’t fuck it up as bad as we did.
VGA was just analog, it wasn’t because the resolutions supported weren’t HD.
100% right. I know it can handle 1920x1080 @ 60hz and it can handle up to 2048x1536
It can handle way more than that can’t it? It’s analogue, I remember being able to set my crt to 120hz way back in the day.
I’ve seen some videos on YouTube of people overclocking their CRTs so definitely that most be a thing. And yes it is 100% analog.
I should get a new CRT.
Dude, I’ve been thinking about that too and they’re getting rare or difficult to find, at least in the USA. I found one at work with the Windows 2000 Login Screen burned in…
I remember my buddy getting a whole bunch of viewsonic CRTs from his dad who worked at a professional animation studio. They could do up to 2048×1536 and they looked amazing, but were heavy as fuck for lan parties lol. I loved that monitor though, when i finally ‘upgraded’ to an lcd screen it felt like a downgrade in alot of ways except desk real estate.
It already happened to them multiple times that’s why we are on HDMI 2.2 which can go up to:
7680 × 4320 @ 60FPS
HDMI 1.0 could only reach:
1920 x 1080 @ 60FPS
The only reason it still works is because they keep changing the specifications.
And I think I can confidently say we will never need more than 8K since we are reaching the physical limits of the human eye or at the very least it will never be considered low resolution.
Maybe, but I could see thunderbolt replacing HDMI and display port over time. It can carry video, audio, data, and power simultaneously, and has more bandwidth for additional information like HDR or 3D.
But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.
/s
Yes? Just add a usb rubber ducky
USB can do that as well, using Displayport alt mode. And it doesn’t need Intel’s fees.
Also, 3D. LOL
Same cable, same port, I don’t really care what it’s called if the capabilities are the same.
3D is important for stuff like VR, there’s a reason it’s the predominant cable for headsets.
It’s REALLY important for adoption. An open standard is far more likely to be used.
I can see more than 8k being useful but not really for home use. Except possibly different form factors like VR, not sure on that one either though.
Na, when you go any higher in commercial use you just use multiple cables, HDMI 2.2 can only reach 10ft as it is if you lower the bandwidth it can go farther, I could see a optical video standard for commercial use though.
VGA should have released VGA2.1 that is what all the cool display cables do
Then a a month later VGA 2.1B. After that VGA 3.0 Fullspeed and 3.0 Highspeed, to make things “less confusing.”
Names are uaeful, I use fast Ethernet when connecting a server because it’s fast.
nobody noticed dark side of the moon cover on the background
It’s a woke poster. /$
I don’t think you’ll need much more than 8k 144hz. Your eyes just can’t see that much. Maybe the connector will eventually get smaller, such as USBC?
USB-C is already a plug standard for display port over thunderbolt. Apple monitors use this to daisy chain monitors together.
But its DP implemented within USB, vs an actual DP. There’s a latency there which might matter for online realtime gaming
The USB-C is just the connector. The cables are thunderbolt. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are several times the speed of USB 3.2. No latency issue.
Yeah but there are still signal processing steps required to tell both ends of the connector which pins to use to implement the DisplayPort protocol.
- DP cable? Connection is direct from GPU → Screen.
- DP through USB? Connection has to go through the USB bus on the machine → Screen.
Let’s hope that bus is dedicated, and not overloaded with other USB tasks!
Let’s hope that bus is dedicated
It is. That’s always been one of the key features of thunderbolt. There’s no negotiation or latency involved after you plug it in. It just works.
Right, the pins just automatically know which to use without any negotiation from the USB bus. Come on.
Edit: Your reaction to this friendly debate is, for lack of a better word, hilarious. The fact that I’ve been upvoting your responses out of mutual respect, and that you’ve been clearly downvoting mine speaks volumes.
Just because you don’t know how any of this works, don’t lash out at me in anger.
Blocked
640k of RAM should be enough for anybody
Kinda already happening with usbc
USB-C uses the DisplayPort protocol in many cases.
Yeah but in the context of physical connector that doesn’t matter, you can really run almost all protocols over almost any connector if you want to (no bitrate guarantees)
I still use VGA
