[mythtv-users] Why do they put VGA on Mother Boards anymore?

[Jacob Steenhagen]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Everyday,  I sit in front of two monitors at my desk.  Both are 1680x1050
> 22" LCD panels.  One is attached, via VGA, to one the new Dell PCs running
> Ubuntu.  The other is attached, via DVI, to a macbook running OS X - nearly
> identical hardware to the Dell.   The VGA driven monitor is about a year
> newer than the DVI driven one, and it looks *better*.
>

More anecdotal evidence:

My computer here at work is an older Dell machine (probably almost 3 years
now). It came with a video card that had a VGA and a DVI output both
available on the card (GeForce4 MX 440). Because of work purposes, I have
Windows on the machine, but I have a second machine sitting next to it that
runs CentOS 5. The CentOS machine only has a VGA output. I have the Windows
machine set up as dual monitors with monitor 1 being through the VGA
connector and 2 being through the DVI. The VGA connector runs to a KVM that
is also connected to the linux box. My monitors are identical Dell 19" LCD's
that have both a VGA and DVI connector. Running at 1280x1024 on both
monitors, I can not look at the monitor and tell which monitor is connected
via which method. I had to give it a lot of thought as to how I wired it up
in order to type this message.

So while DVI may have more future capabilities, I have a hard time
recommending that anybody go out of their way to get it on a video board or
monitor. In fact, when I bought my TV last Thanksgiving, I went out of my
way to get one that had a VGA connector in it :).


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