Death to VGA!

[Wreckage]

From the "it's about time" department.

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/20099

Intel aims to accelerate the adoption of DisplayPort and HDMI video interfaces, and in the process, it's looking to cut the cord not only on VGA ports, but also the digital LVDS interface that connects most laptops to their displays. The chip giant's products will cease supporting LVDS in 2013, and VGA support will be phased out two years after that.

Lest you think Intel is alone in its bid to rid PCs of their old-school D-sub connectors, it's being joined by Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, LG, and even AMD. The world's #2 CPU maker intends to follow a schedule similar to Intel's, eliminating LVDS support in 2013 and phasing out VGA by 2015.

 

[DaveSimmons]

My iogear KVM works reliably and uses VGA + PS2 ports.

Until $100 6-8 port HDMI + USB KVMs are common and reliable I do not approve of this message.

 

[SickBeast]

They're still selling Atom-based computers with a DSUB port and no DVI or HDMI. I don't understand it. Why would anyone looking for a HTPC go for one without HDMI?

This is long overdue.

 

[ViRGE]

That's fine. The Chinese will just build their own computers with DSub. The Asia-Pacific region is already the biggest user of that interface in the first place.

 

[exar333]

Thank god.

 

[BoomerD]

Damn it! I'm not ready to give up my Sony Multiscan Trinitron monitor...

 

[RavenSEAL]

Haha, the world's #2? Who's #1?

 

[Maximilian]

You can pry my VGA connector from my cold dead fingers

 

[Wreckage]

Well for the luddites out there, they make adapters.

Much like the USB floppy drives and the COBOL bed sheets.

 

[nitromullet]

Funny that the article makes it sound like Intel is spearheading something here. The only things I've owned in years that ONLY had a VGA out were equipped with an Intel IGP. Everything else I owned with with either AMD or NVIDIA graphics has had DVI, HDMI, DP, or miniDP.

 

[jacktesterson]

Haha, the world's #2? Who's #1?

Reads it again

 

[God Mode]

I want ethernet cable and port to be the standard for everything.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Lame. There's no good reason to stop supporting these older interfaces. All Intel wants to do is churn the market. Good old VGA doesn't support DRM, remember that. That's why they want to kill it, it's an "analog hole" in their draconian DRM schemes.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Reads it again

Lol, horrible punctuation by the writer.

 

[Throckmorton]

Lame. There's no good reason to stop supporting these older interfaces. All Intel wants to do is churn the market. Good old VGA doesn't support DRM, remember that. That's why they want to kill it, it's an "analog hole" in their draconian DRM schemes.

But what can you do with that analog hole in DRM? I haven't seen a single TV tuner that supports VGA input, so you can't record from it. Every display supports HDCP now. So what's the benefit of VGA for consumers?

 

[fuzzymath10]

Even if VGA has no DRM, there are still things like that blu-ray protection that downsamples HD to 540p if it senses an analog interface like VGA or component.

Quality-wise, with the right hardware, VGA is as good as digital connections. It can be very ugly and nasty with any weak link in the chain, but I noticed no difference when I switched to DVI using the same TV. Different video cards/machines on the same TV did look different and some looked pretty awful with banding and double-images though.

 

[nemesismk2]

You can pry my VGA connector from my cold dead fingers

My thoughts exactly

 

[evident]

i never understood why anyone looking for a laptop on the market today would buy a laptop w/o an HDMI connection. it's a total deal breaker. i know some people say they won't ever connect to TV's or whatnot, but nowadays it's so much more common place to do so. VGA just like windows xp needs to be killed with fire already