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forquare1
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pcernie
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james016
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About time.
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Amnesia10
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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.
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Spreadie
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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. 
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forquare1
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My first thought would be projectors...All of the uni projectors were VGA...
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Spreadie
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Yeah, that could be expensive. I would have thought that the number of CRTs would dwarf the replacement costs of relatively few projectors though.
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ProfessorF
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I foresee good times for the manufacturers of VGA-DVI adaptors...
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Spreadie
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To me, the article read like DVI will be off the cards too.
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ProfessorF
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Well, in that case - VGA-DisplayPort adaptor manufacturers. HDMI's for tellies anyway...
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Amnesia10
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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. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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l3v1ck
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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.
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Amnesia10
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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. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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big_D
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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...
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Nick
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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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