Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:35:03 -0400 From: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display?? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20080729093018.00af4d08@mail.pchotshots.com> In-Reply-To: <20080729025631.GC96894@thought.org> References: <20080728222750.O3537@tripel.monochrome.org> <20080729005144.GA67405@thought.org> <20080728221623.R3537@tripel.monochrome.org> <20080728222750.O3537@tripel.monochrome.org>
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DVI = Digital Visual Interface (aka Digital Video Interface) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface Basically instead of sending analog signals from PC to monitor, it's a digital data stream. You won't get any distortion between source and destination. At 10:56 PM 7/28/2008, you wrote: >On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:30:22PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chris Hill wrote: > > > > >On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > >>[snip] whatever display i get has to have dual capability. both > > >>digital and analog-- eventually I'll need a new KVM box. > > >> > > >>so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? > > > > > >I've been using a ViewSonic VP930b for a few years, and been very > > >happy with it. It has two VGA inputs, no DVI. Probably not made > > >anymore so I guess that's moot. > > > > - Replying to my own post like a tool - > > > > This monitor does in fact have a DVI input in addition to the two VGAs. > > Don't know if that counts as 'digital' or not. > > > > > while i can still TYPE today:: the fact is that i was a hardware > major, not software. > but got shuffled into pporting an f77 compiler for my > intership.... now, i know almost > Zero about hardware, so no clue what this "dvi input" > means. sad, isnt it? > > .... > > > -- > > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > >-- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Brad Mettee PC HotShots, Inc. Baltimore, MD (410) 426-7617 -> Let us bring out the *Power* of your PCs. <- -> Custom Business Software Solutions since 1991 <- visit http://www.pchotshots.com for information about our company.
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