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List of display interfaces

Name Intro year Connector A/D Max resolution Utilizations Notes
PAL-CVBS 1956? [1] RCA Analog 728 x 576 @ 25 Early home computers
S-Video  ? Mini-DIN 4-pin Analog 728 x 576 @ 25 Commodore Vic-20 and C64
SCART 1977 SCART 21-pin Analog 728 x 576 @ 25 Commodore Amiga and various video games
CGA 1981 DE-9 Digital 640 x 200 @ 60 Pre-i80386 x86 machines
MDA 1981 DE-9 Digital 720 x 350 @ 50
HGC 1982 DE-9[2] Digital 720 x 348 @ 50
EGA 1984 DE-9 Digital 640 x 350 @ 60
VGA 1987 HD15F Analog 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Introduced with IBM x86 machines, but became a universal analog display interface.
Mac-II/Quadra 1987 DB15F Analog 1152 x 870 @ 75 Macintosh Mac-DB15F and Sun-13W3 were similar in capability to VGA. Some Sun machines used 4 or 5 BNC connectors to transfer video signal.
13W3 1990? DB13W3 Analog 1152 x 900 @ 76 SUN computer systems
DVI 1999 DVI Both 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Recent video cards DVI was the digital display interface that won over several competing standards to answer the need for a digital computer->display link. The marketplace had previously been almost exclusively analog.
ADC 2000 Apple-ADC Both same as DVI Apple computers
HDMI 2003 HDMI-A/B/C Digital 3200 x 2048 @ 120 Many A/V systems and video cards (including motherboards with IGP) HDMI use a content protection system HDCP which only allows devices with HDCP key(s) to transmit high-definition content. Sends audio and video data in one cable.
UDI 2006 "USB alike plug with single row of 26 pins" Both  ? Intel has withdrawn from the promoter group and supports another standard, DisplayPort.
DisplayPort 2007 20pin-DisplayPort Digital 2560 x 1600 @ 70
(for 6.9 Gbit/s link)
None as of 2007 DisplayPort introduced the 128bit-AES to replace HDCP. DisplayPort also includes a notebook internal connector, something the HDMI and DVI specifications lack.

References

  1. ^ What is CVBS video format - aus.tv.pay. 070824 groups.google.se
  2. ^ The PC video acronyms. 070820 philipstorr.id.au

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