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Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:51 am ]
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VGA is set to be killed off in favour of low-power digital interfaces such as DisplayPort and HDMI.
Intel will kill off the Video Graphics Array output by 2015, while AMD will end support in 2013, echoing a move Apple took over a decade ago.


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Author:  pcernie [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:24 pm ]
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Good riddance :D
Author:  james016 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:29 pm ]
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About time.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:32 pm ]
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The backward compatibility is very important. If you have hundreds or thousands of perfectly working VGA displays then the costs of replacing them will be huge.
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:39 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
The backward compatibility is very important. If you have hundreds or thousands of perfectly working VGA displays then the costs of replacing them will be huge.

Some of that cost will be offset by power savings though.

I'd imagine the vast majority of monitors using VGA are CRTs, which use more than twice the power of an LCD panel.

Power savings over the typical lifetime should comfortably cover the initial cost.
[edit] on further investigation, my last sentence looks to be a load of bobbins. The savings will definitely offset a fair portion of the initial cost, but isn't likely to cover half, let alone all of it. :roll:
Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:50 pm ]
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Spreadie wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
The backward compatibility is very important. If you have hundreds or thousands of perfectly working VGA displays then the costs of replacing them will be huge.

Some of that cost will be offset by power savings though.

I'd imagine the vast majority of monitors using VGA are CRTs, which use more than twice the power of an LCD panel.

Power savings over the typical lifetime should comfortably cover the initial cost.


My first thought would be projectors...All of the uni projectors were VGA...
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:55 pm ]
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forquare1 wrote:
My first thought would be projectors...All of the uni projectors were VGA...

Yeah, that could be expensive. I would have thought that the number of CRTs would dwarf the replacement costs of relatively few projectors though.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:56 pm ]
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I foresee good times for the manufacturers of VGA-DVI adaptors...
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:59 pm ]
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ProfessorF wrote:
I foresee good times for the manufacturers of VGA-DVI adaptors...

To me, the article read like DVI will be off the cards too.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:07 pm ]
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Well, in that case - VGA-DisplayPort adaptor manufacturers.
HDMI's for tellies anyway...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:46 pm ]
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ProfessorF wrote:
Well, in that case - VGA-DisplayPort adaptor manufacturers.
HDMI's for tellies anyway...

Yes good times for adaptor manufacturers. I am about to get rid of an newish 32" CRT to replace it with an 32" HDTV next year. The energy savings will be minimal. Though the space savings will be immense.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:22 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
The backward compatibility is very important. If you have hundreds or thousands of perfectly working VGA displays then the costs of replacing them will be huge.
You say that, but even old-ish kit has digital connectors. My five year old TFT has DVI, and that wasn't exactly a new connector when I bought it.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:49 am ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
The backward compatibility is very important. If you have hundreds or thousands of perfectly working VGA displays then the costs of replacing them will be huge.
You say that, but even old-ish kit has digital connectors. My five year old TFT has DVI, and that wasn't exactly a new connector when I bought it.

Yes but as I said elsewhere I think that the adaptor manufacturers will have a good few years as people use these until the screens finally give up the ghost. Over time new LCD screens will take over but it will take a few years before the CRT is rare.
Author:  big_D [ Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:05 am ]
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Spreadie wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
The backward compatibility is very important. If you have hundreds or thousands of perfectly working VGA displays then the costs of replacing them will be huge.

Some of that cost will be offset by power savings though.

I'd imagine the vast majority of monitors using VGA are CRTs, which use more than twice the power of an LCD panel.

Power savings over the typical lifetime should comfortably cover the initial cost.
[edit] on further investigation, my last sentence looks to be a load of bobbins. The savings will definitely offset a fair portion of the initial cost, but isn't likely to cover half, let alone all of it. :roll:

We've got a couple of hundred LCDs with only VGA input...

We still sell 15" touch panel terminals for the food processing industry (mainly slaughter houses and meat processing plants) and the 15" panels only have VGA input, I haven't seen an 15" industry quality LCD panel with Display Port or HDMI input yet...
Author:  Nick [ Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:46 pm ]
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This all seems a bit optimistic to me. At the moment, even monitors with DVI are more expensive than those with VGA, nevermind DisplayPort or HDMI.

Infact - I'm yet to see a monitor with DisplayPort, and when I do there's a 99% chance I'll have to use an adapter which completely ruins the whole point.
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