[Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer, the CoCo-X

[Frank Pittel]

Last fall when I got my raspberry PI I noticed a few things about hdmi, dvi and vga.

The first is that (at the time at least) is that most if not all TVs and monitors have
a vga input. Interestingly enough monitors normally have both vga and dvi and I didn't see
a single one with hdmi. At the same time TVs (monitor with a tuner these days) have vga and
hdmi but no dvi. Also the "cheap" hdmi to dvi converters are actually expensive! Another
interesting thing I discoverd is that not all converters work with all monitors and some
monitors don't work with hdmi converted to dvi period!

I hope I'm wrong about the inputs on the monitors and tvs and would love a display with
one each of vga, dvi, hdmi! I'm not holding my breath though

I agree that in the long run vga is a dead end.

The Other Frank


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 03:32:38PM -0700, Steve Bjork wrote:
> No support for DVI, HDMI or Display Port for monitor hookup?
> 
> With more and more companies dropping analog VGA support on monitors
> and T.V., it will not be long till there are no monitors that  work
> with your project.
> 
> Yes, HDMI is a bit of a pain to license.  But, DVI is an open
> standard and can be converted to HDMI with cheap adapters.  Not as
> many companies support Display Port but it may be around for a while
> since it supports higher resolutions than 1080p on HDMI.
> 
> (Before someone jumps in about HDMI 1.4 handling 4k resolution with
> "Deep Color",  the new HDMI 2.0 is better design for the next gen
> T.V. with Ultra HD resolutions of 3840 × 2160 and 7680 × 4320.)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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