VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years

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VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 20, 2012 @04:41AM from the think-of-the-connectors dept.

angry tapir writes "Legacy VGA and DVI display ports are likely to be phased out in PCs over the next five years, according to a study by NPD In-Stat. Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are ending chipset support for VGA by 2015. The VGA interface was originally introduced in 1986 and DVI was introduced in 1999."

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Re:why phase out DVI? by HerculesMO · 2012-01-20 04:52 · Score: 5, Informative

DVI-D has copy protection just as good as HDMI. It supports HDCP.

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Re:Ain't happening by rubycodez · 2012-01-20 04:56 · Score: 5, Informative

I've never seen a motherboard *without* a parallel port or serial. they're not connected, but they are there. hell, my two month old motherboard with the trendy eSata and DVI for six core chip has floppy and "game" port on it!
Re:why phase out DVI? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-20 04:58 · Score: 5, Informative

Single-link DVI and HDMI are the same signal! They have the exact same TMDS pins! The ones and zeroes are identical! It's the same thing!
Re:why phase out DVI? by PhrostyMcByte · 2012-01-20 05:00 · Score: 5, Informative

HDCP supported DVI before it supported HDMI, and has been available on graphics cards for years. This won't be closing any holes.
Re:why phase out DVI? by Megaweapon · 2012-01-20 05:06 · Score: 5, Informative

DVI can support the same HDCP protection as HDMI because it's the same fucking thing with a different connector shape. The anti-HDMI fud here is idiotic.
Making HDMI ports requires a license/royalty (whereas things like DisplayPort is an open VESA standard and requires no royalty payments).

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Re:And switch to HDMI? by HerculesMO · 2012-01-20 05:37 · Score: 5, Informative

The sync of an HDMI cable isn't fast -- it's slow. So if you swap to a HDCP protected stream and then off of it, the monitor will flicker or sometimes, not come back at all. Then you need to reboot.
Just basically, it sucks. Read about HDMI handshake issues and you'll see what I mean.

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Re:why phase out DVI? by idontgno · 2012-01-20 05:44 · Score: 5, Informative

Because DVI is also an analog interface? Or are you forgetting the VGA-compatible (analog) C1-C5 signals? Which are, amazingly not at all present in a HDMI connection.
The digital portion of DVI is HDMI-equivalent. The analog portion of DVI is VGA-equivalent. The intent is to demolish VGA, including its equivalents. Hence, DVI has to be banished too.
QED.

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Re:why phase out DVI? by cpu6502 · 2012-01-20 05:46 · Score: 5, Informative

So does this phase-out mean I won't be able to use the 4 VGA CRTs and 1 DVI LCD I have accumulated over the years?
What a waste of perfectly functional equipment.

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