From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 13:35:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421561065672 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:35:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmettee@pchotshots.com) Received: from mail.pchotshots.com (ns1.pchotshots.com [12.172.123.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69828FC23 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:35:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmettee@pchotshots.com) Received: (qmail 50641 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jul 2008 13:34:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dev2.pchotshots.com) (bmettee@12.172.123.228) by mail.pchotshots.com with ESMTPA; 29 Jul 2008 13:34:49 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20080729093018.00af4d08@mail.pchotshots.com> X-Sender: bmettee@pchotshots.com@mail.pchotshots.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:35:03 -0400 To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: Brad Mettee 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:35:04 -0000 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.