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

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:

>
> Also, I don't think Dell sells anything with only analog out.
>
> We got new desktop PCs for everyone here at work in December, and we  
> went with Dells.   The machines are Core 2 Duos with Intel G33  
> graphics chipsets, i.e. reasonably powerful and modern systems.   
> Along with the computers we ordered Dell 22" LCDs.
>
> When the computers arrived, I was dumbfounded to discover that they  
> only had VGA outputs.  I was, frankly, a little bit pissed off.
>
> The confusion and anger quickly disappeared as soon as I hooked up  
> one of the computers to one of the monitors.   The picture is  
> perfect at 1680x1050.  For years I have been heavily biased against  
> VGA connections to LCD monitors because I have seen plenty of setups  
> where using VGA instead of DVI resulted in a slightly blurry picture.

Most people aren't using the native resolution of the LCD from their  
analog VGA port. I've often seen people buy a relatively cheap LCD  
display and leave it at 800x600 or 1024x768 since that's what their  
CRT was set to. They say, "Yeah, it's kinda blurry but it was cheap."  
I flip the resolution to the native res of the LCD and they're blown  
away at how good it looks except, "Why is everything so small now?".  
Oy vey.