[PLUG-TALK] Analog vs. Digital Video

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Wed Aug 15 23:57:45 UTC 2007


On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:31:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Are there multiple standards for digital connections between video cards
> and monitors?

DVI has been the standard for some time now, but HDMI is gradually
growing in popularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi

> The card comes with what appears to be an audio cable because it has
> male RCA connectors on each end (but no socket for them on the card
> end.  Strange.

Indeed, considering that your new card supposedly sports an S-Video
output. Maybe they packaged up the wrong cable.

-- 
Paul



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