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It's baffling that such an old, low-quality, analog-signal standard for monitors still has widespread use in the business world with myself even seeing users having Displayport to VGA adapters on computers and monitors equipped with Displayport. Why hasn't VGA disappeared yet from the market?
 
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hftvhftv said:
It's baffling that such an old, low-quality, analog-signal standard for monitors still has widespread use in the business world with myself even seeing users having Displayport to VGA adapters on computers and monitors equipped with Displayport. Why hasn't VGA disappeared yet from the market?
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You answered your own question.
"in the business world "

"low quality" does not count for a Word document.
It costs little to add it in, why remove it?
 
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It effectively has. New products don't typically include VGA.

Businesses don't like to spend money. So buying a pile of disposable adapters is cheaper than replacing every monitor/projector in the company. Being the nerd that I am, I have a Type-C to Display Port cable to run my external monitor at work. Most everyone else is using a multi-function USB docking station that itself doesn't offer VGA, but still has a DVI port that is easy to adapt.

As those older devices fail, they will be replaced with HDMI and Type-C based equipment.

My company is a bit of an outlier, we replace our entire end user hardware every three years. But government, schools, medical, and more frugal businesses will wait as long as possible.
 
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greed.
USB was supposed to replace the serial and parrallel ports but alas they are still in widespread use in certain sectors, why? upgrading is costly, borderline impossible on some computing systems. I have done repairs on assembly line machines that are still running windows 95. upgrading the OS would require someone to program the machine again from scratch and that is costly if not almost impossible.
this is a different circumstance but the reasons are the same. shareholders, dividends, money.
 
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USAFRet said:
You answered your own question.
"in the business world "

"low quality" does not count for a Word document.
It costs little to add it in, why remove it?
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With the amount of loose VGA or bad VGA cables causing IT support to come along and wiggle the cables back into place or having to fish new cables through the ceiling in order to connect a TV without any distortion or poor image quality, it surprising to see the lack of a push to sell businesses on using newer standards. Also, for Word documents, a blurry image can cause eyestrain on an employee leading to poor eyesight.
 
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hftvhftv said:
With the amount of loose VGA or bad VGA cables causing IT support to come along and wiggle the cables back into place or having to fish new cables through the ceiling in order to connect a TV without any distortion or poor image quality, it surprising to see the lack of a push to sell businesses on using newer standards. Also, for Word documents, a blurry image can cause eyestrain on an employee leading to poor eyesight.
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The push has been there. Some businesses are reluctant to invest in the switch. As old equipment dies, it is replaced by the new shiny.
As for 'Word"..it is not necessarily blurry, just not as crisp and clear as the newer formats.
 
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Eximo said:
It effectively has. New products don't typically include VGA.

Businesses don't like to spend money. So buying a pile of disposable adapters is cheaper than replacing every monitor/projector in the company. Being the nerd that I am, I have a Type-C to Display Port cable to run my external monitor at work. Most everyone else is using a multi-function USB docking station that itself doesn't offer VGA, but still has a DVI port that is easy to adapt.

As those older devices fail, they will be replaced with HDMI and Type-C based equipment.

My company is a bit of an outlier, we replace our entire end user hardware every three years. But government, schools, medical, and more frugal businesses will wait as long as possible.
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The one I work for replaces PCs every three years, but only monitors as needed, many of the older monitors aren't in the best shape.
 
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hftvhftv said:
With the amount of loose VGA or bad VGA cables causing IT support to come along and wiggle the cables back into place or having to fish new cables through the ceiling in order to connect a TV without any distortion or poor image quality, it surprising to see the lack of a push to sell businesses on using newer standards. Also, for Word documents, a blurry image can cause eyestrain on an employee leading to poor eyesight.
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ah memories. I am a fan of using large paperclips and tying the adapter ends together, connect the sockets and wrap em up with a couple paperclips and they are not coming loose.
 
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Same here, I've got some Dell, Lenovo, Dell, Dell, Sun, HP, etc monitors going back 15 years. Even some 4:3 panels are still working. They've been slowly replacing all the projectors with gigantic TVs as well. Also a communications technology test center, so we have an 75 or 80inch? Dell touchscreen. (so many smudges)

We haven't had a VGA port on our primary systems since 2010. Lenovo was okay with the full size display port, but after that Dell is obsessed with HDMI, so a whole new round of adapters. Least I have Type-C DP now.

Those docking stations are the silly ones, every Type-A port is so likely to be destroyed. (There is only one on the right...)
 
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