StarTech.com DVI to VGA Cable Adapter - DVI (M) to VGA (F) - 1 Pack - Male DVI to Female VGA (DVIVGAMF)

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Lastly, the one tricky factor in all this is that not all your equipment might support the native resolution you want to send. To promote interoperability between DVI-D and HDMI devices, HDMI source components and displays support DVI-D signalling. In December 2010, Intel, AMD, and several computer and display manufacturers announced they would stop supporting DVI-I, VGA and LVDS-technologies from 2013/2015, and instead speed up adoption of DisplayPort and HDMI. Dual link should not be confused with dual display (also known as dual head), which is a configuration consisting of a single computer connected to two monitors, sometimes using a DMS-59 connector for two single link DVI connections. Digital Visual Interface ( DVI) is a video display interface developed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).

First, check out all the other articles he's written on topics such as why all HDMI cables are the same, LED LCD vs. If you have the option to use HDMI or another port liked Display Port, use those instead, DVI and VGA should only be used as a last resort because the quality isn’t the best. As soon as you convert between them, the quality will reduce from whatever the source was to a maximum to 1024x768.

You can easily tell them apart because VGA connectors (and ports) are blue while DVI connectors are white. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The analog section of the DVI specification document is brief and points to other specifications like VESA VSIS [16] for electrical characteristics and GTFS for timing information. To make it easier to understand, most graphics cards have at least one dual-link DVI port, single-link DVI-I is kind of dated.

It requires a DVI-I or DVI-A output to get the analog signal to a VGA input (even if the adapter looks like a DVI-D). As mentioned earlier, this is one of the reasons people like DVI because it’s easy to convert to other connectors.

The video quality is a factor of the mechanism of operation and the length and quality of the cable; both are discussed below. You also need to know that there are single-link and dual-link versions of DVI-I and DVI-D, so it can be a little complicated. The technology is a little dated, but like VGA, it’s still common on computers, monitors, TVs, and other displays.