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

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Frank Pittel wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:09:01PM +1100, Mark McDougall wrote:
>> On 21/03/2013 6:44 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> Interesting. DVI should be electrically compatible with HDMI and
>> converters are nothing more than 2 connectors wired back-to-back. You just
>> need to make sure that (a) the DVI signal is actually DVI-D and (b) the
>> converter matches your signal type (single/dual link etc).

I think the compatibility is generally in one direction:  You can always 
feed a DVI input from HDMI.  The other way around is not a given, although 
YMMV.


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