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05-10-2005, 07:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
glennl Junior Techie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 78	can i do anything cool w/ DVI? my vid card has DVI. my monitor's just vga and plugged into that port. is there anything cool i am missing out on by not using DVI? what is it for?

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05-10-2005, 07:26 PM

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DVI or Digital Visual Interface is used to connect a Digital LCD monitor or a DLP Projector to your PC. If you don't have either, then this connecter will go unused.

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05-10-2005, 08:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
FadingTheory I Rule You Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 543	It supposedly provides better video quality then both S-Video and VGA. All looks the same to me. __________________ Iraq... whee.

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05-10-2005, 08:04 PM

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YOu can use them on Plasma TV's.

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05-10-2005, 08:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
ShadowFalls True Techie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 241	or use a DVI to VGA converter to use a monitor which does not have the DVI Interface __________________ If all you can see is Darkness Within the Light, You are blind to this world. http://img25.exs.cx/img25/7382/blade4ls.gif http://img222.exs.cx/img222/1324/z1irvineshksvan6uv.gif

05-10-2005, 10:01 PM	#6 (permalink)
woot7800GT Monster Techie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,261	Yeah, I havn't even seen a monitor with a DVI interface.

05-10-2005, 10:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
ShadowFalls True Techie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 241	this old Dell LCD monitor I have has DVI and VGA lol, there are many out there, though low-end ones are less likely to have both. __________________ If all you can see is Darkness Within the Light, You are blind to this world. http://img25.exs.cx/img25/7382/blade4ls.gif http://img222.exs.cx/img222/1324/z1irvineshksvan6uv.gif

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