On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:10:54 +0000, Malcolm G
wrote:

Harder part might be doing HDMI to VGA. Converters for that weren't
cheap when I last looked.

It's was a big mistake to omit VGA output from the Pi IMHO. I looked
into the cost of a converter and decided instead to buy a new monitor.

I don't think their target market needed it enough to justify the cost -
it has composite video and HDMI so most houses have something it can
talk to. (The chip they are using does not have SVGA support)

They gave some crap about VGA being legacy technology but *every*
monitor has a VGA input, but many don't have HDMI/DVI. I had lots of
monitors lying around but not one with a digital input. I would be
happy to pay extra for a Pi with VGA output, if one was available.

And composite video is ****e. I won't use for TV let alone a monitor.
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