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

[Wade Maxfield]

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> Am I missing something here?  It seems to me that any mobo with "DVI"
> is actually DVI-I, meaning that it has both analog and digital.  This
> allows the use of a DVI->VGA cable.  So, I'm forced to wonder, why are
> hardware manufacturers in the year 2008 throwing away the digital
> signal and only providing access to the post D/A processed outcome?

Who says they are?

DVI-I has all the pins necessary for both DVI-A and DVI-D.  When you use 
a DVI-D monitor it gets the DVI-D signal - which should be digital all 
the way. If you use a VGA monitor via a DVI-I to VGA adaptor then you 
get your D/A processed signal.

  - Wade