Say Goodbye to VGA in 5 Years

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Nah, I like VGA because it "has no limit on resolution" and HDMI can only go up to 2560x1600 or something. Wait, HDMI supports high quality audio too though... ?
 
I am all for getting rid of it finally. My concern is what is going to happen with all those Projectors, etc that are already very expensive and support VGA only....
 
VGA is still the lowest common denominator. I have a Mac but it won't work with my old DVI monitor so I had to buy adapters and use it with an old VGA adapter. I was running my home computer with DVI but I couldn't find a decent DVI KVM switch at any price so I had to switch everything back to VGA and use a very good VGA KVM switch that only cost $15. My computers at work use DVI monitors but I have to use adapters to connect them to my new CAD workstation that came with VGA only ports.

Fortunately VGA won't die out completely, other people will still support it. I would hat to throw away perfectly usable hardware and buy new hardware just because the plugs don't work anymore. I would rather use my money to buy new CPU's and hard drives and such.
 
[citation][nom]scanlia[/nom]Nah, I like VGA because it "has no limit on resolution" and HDMI can only go up to 2560x1600 or something. Wait, HDMI supports high quality audio too though... ?[/citation]

The problem with VGA though is it runs a analog signal. And I think the one you are thinking of as limitless resolution is Dual link DVI which is not limited to any resolution except the available bandwidth on the copper connectors.

HDMI however is capable of up to 2160P (3840 x 2160) resolution which we don't have any monitors that support it and any resolution beyond that is already supported via DVI/DisplayPort and multiple monitors on most ATI HD5K+ series GPUs.
 
[citation][nom]scanlia[/nom]Nah, I like VGA because it "has no limit on resolution" and HDMI can only go up to 2560x1600 or something. Wait, HDMI supports high quality audio too though... ?[/citation]

I think you got that the wrong way around. VGA is the one that gets screwy at high res.
 
Either way this was already commented on nearly a week ago, I gorgot the tile but it was basically the same idea. I think that the government and businesses will keep VGA despite the benefits of DVI because they have such old gear they want to use (despite the fact that said gear will cost them in the power bill if not upfront cost). I read in an article somewhere that the Justice Department(US) had just finished migrating all of their PCs of IE5! Guesss how old their other gear ought to be!
 
I'm still on VGA and it seems there are still a lot of brand new 22 inch Wide Full HD LCD's from Brands such as LG and Samsung that still have ONLY a VGA port.

My cousin wanted a cheap monitor earlier this year and he got a brand new LG, Full HD, 22 inch Wide 16:9 that only has VGA. And they want to get rid of it in three years ? Make that seven.
 
I run a 25" LCD on VGA, in 1080p. Slimline desktop case and I put in a GbE card in the PCIe 16x slot since this is at work and not for games. The monitor only has VGA and HDMI (though it came with a DVI-HDMI cable, and no HDMI-HDMI cable).

It doesn't look any better or worse than my monitor at home, which is on DVI. So, who really cares if you're using VGA ... there's nothing intrinsically flawed with an analog signal and nothing intrinsically advantageous about a digital one. Not at current monitor resolutions anyways. But hey, if dumping VGA means 1600p monitors come down to sane prices by 2013/2015, who cares. There's plenty of dongles and adapters out there no one should have a problem connecting old VGA monitors to new HDMI/DVI/DP graphics cards/laptops.
 
i still use VGA a lot, and get rid of ps/2 NO WAY! i still prefer ps/2 for mouse/keyboard.. i've seen my fair share of flakey usb keyboards.

i hate seeing legacy tech phased out.. it can still be useful i still find occasion to use lpt and serial ports.
 
[citation][nom]mister g[/nom]Either way this was already commented on nearly a week ago, I gorgot the tile but it was basically the same idea. I think that the government and businesses will keep VGA despite the benefits of DVI because they have such old gear they want to use (despite the fact that said gear will cost them in the power bill if not upfront cost). I read in an article somewhere that the Justice Department(US) had just finished migrating all of their PCs of IE5! Guesss how old their other gear ought to be![/citation]

Well, they also have enough to make wholes out of spare parts. Most major IT departments keep spare parts around. You would hope a few of those $40,000 toilet seats I bought would pay for a few IT storage rooms.

I'm sure monitor manufacturers will support VGA for a few years after the video card manufacturers stop, just for legacy hardware.

But, seriously, there needs to be either a switch to a higher-bandwidth HDMI, or just standardizing display port for all video.
 
[citation][nom]darkguset[/nom]I am all for getting rid of it finally. My concern is what is going to happen with all those Projectors, etc that are already very expensive and support VGA only....[/citation]
dvi/hdmi to vga adaptors. Hell there are still plenty of paralell port laser printers we service kiking around running paralell-ethernet adaptors. Ive even seen PC systems running the old green screen monitors which are only just getting phased out in a couple companies. They still use them to access old data and whatever. There will always be a few people out there who refuse to throw this stuff away.....
 
Their are still industrial companies who uses VGA displays on their plant automation (not in their offices) - they are working in quite good condition. Even in commercial applications like alarm systems are still using VGA connection and it's rare to see them fail, I guess 2013 is a way of saying from the companies who made VGA "don't use it anymore, because it is old stuff" - but it doesn't mean it will stop from their.
 
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