On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:43:29 +0000, Mark wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:07:11 +0000 (UTC), Jules Richardson
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:10:53 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:
And any monitor will have DVI. Why is anyone farting about with VGA
these days?

Because that's all they need?

None of my monitors have DVI (except the new one I bought especially for
the Pi) and none of my TVs have HDMI. I don't chuck out working stuff
just so I can buy the lastest fashions.

Exactly. I'm running this 'ere monitor at a decent resolution and the
picture quality is perfectly fine; having to "upgrade" to something that
gives me exactly the same end result seems like a waste.

I'm sure there are applications that do benefit from DVI, but that
doesn't mean that VGA is suddenly bad all across the board just because
something better might exist for certain cases.

None of my TVs have anything other than RF* input, incidentally, but
that's still good enough for watching the odd half-hour of broadcast
dross or the occasional film (composite-RF converter box betwen DVD and
TV).

* well, I do have one with S-video, but the vertical sync's collapsed and
ICBA to fix it.

cheers

Jules