Reader Mike ordered a new Dell system that came with a 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Although the monitor includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs, it included only a VGA cable–even though the setup instructions ...

With televisions, HDMI is the most common connector. But if you want to connect a computer to your TV (or you've got a new computer monitor), the options tend to be HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and ...

Question:<BR><BR>Do I risk any damage in hot plugging video cables?<BR><BR>I have a DVI PowerBook, and have had NO trouble hot plugging a monitor in (well, usually a projector at school...) or 'hot ...

Time for this week's installment of "Scott's Stupid Questions"<BR><BR>When I was using my beige G3 to get by over the last few months, I had a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI card installed. It's really ...

There are few things that come in as wide a variety of prices as cables and interconnects. HDMI cables, for instance, can run from $1 to over $1,000 for the same length. USB cables can be similarly ...

The Digital Video Interface and Serial Digital Interface standards are similar in concept but very different in execution. Backward compatible with the High Definition Multimedia Interface, or HDMI, ...

It’s fairly easy to create VGA with an FPGA using a simple R/2R DAC. As [Mike] points out, this requires a lot of IO pins, and many development boards only support 8 bit VGA. Analog VGA is being ...