I have been looking at 17" / 19" monitors and they only have VGA input. I thought monitor manufacturers were making it a standard for every monitor to have both VGA and DVI. What gives ?
I have been looking at 17" / 19" monitors and they only have VGA input. I thought monitor manufacturers were making it a standard for every monitor to have both VGA and DVI. What gives ?
Last edited by OilSheikh; 07-05-2011 at 11:25 PM.
I don't know why there are even monitors for sale with VGA in the first place, I can't think of a single VGA-only card that's been made in the last 6 years, even IGP boards all have either DVI or HDMI. It's high time to drag this savagely flogged and festering horse out of the barn and bury it.
Cost, simples.
If you are offering bottom on the range products, you just build/sell what the market wants.
That extra 40p to stick on a dvi port etc is all lost profit.
Huh? It actually costs more to use a VGA port on a monitor, it needs a bridge chip to interface with the display's pixel matrix, and then there's opportunity cost from lost sales and stock sitting around taking up space. Drop VGA altogether and just go all out DVI, costs go down, sales go up. In fact, it'd be better if everyone just started sticking DisplayPort on everything and let consumer buy the appropriate dongle for fringe/legacy interfaces.
It's just beyond a joke at this point that things still come with VGA.
The longevity of vga is simple, servers, it is very uncommon to find a server with DVI on it. Most data centers are setup to use vga or serial. They are being replaced with IPMI and kvm over IP, however you need to see the screen to set those up to start with. As good as those are it is annoying to have to got to that data center and attach a head in the middle of the night so most places have both.
The reason vga is used is it is simple, quality drops but you can see something even if you treat it bad, dvi and just stop working, i have seen some dvi monitors just not work right with some graphics cards (my fathers for example, i had to replace the monitor to get it stable).
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Also in the EU (might just be the UK but dont think so) a monitor with a DVI connection is classed as a TV and taxed differently.
GK
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but he said "VGA output"
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This is an Inquirer article back in '06
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...on-pc-monitors
Things may have changed since then but not sure - tax = $$ = not likely to go down!
GK
Keeper of the Gates of Hell
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