I like the screw in connector because I don't have to worry about it falling out of the PC or monitor, and it is more robust, less likely to be pulled/bent/broken.

Unfortunately, even monitor vendors don't seem to agree that DVI was/is good, and I've seen a lot of displays shipping without it recently. GPU makers have entirely gone to displayport/HDMI. It's the end of an era, as far as I'm concerned.

I've switched almost entirely to DP, since I can't get DVI anything anymore. I don't hate DP. I like it more than the friction fit HDMI which is prone to pulling itself out of the port for no good reason just as your opponent is about to come around the corner and all you can do is stare at yourself in the black mirror that your monitor has become and listen in horror as fartmaster69420 frags you again, bragging about it and telling you that you suck, and how he does unspeakable things to your mother over VC in his prepubescent voice.

Anyways. I miss DVI.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

VGA has outlived DVI... I can buy a new monitor with VGA and get a new VGA cable at almost any store ... DVI is hard to find anything but a DVI to VGA adapter

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sad but true.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would you hate me if I said I think the correct screw in port won... mutters in hating DVI for no good reason

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're entitled to that opinion. I don't hate you for it. I would be lying to say I understood.

DVI could operate in three modes, either DVI-A, which was basically just VGA adapted to the DVI connector, DVI-D, which is the primary digital mode, then there was dual link which doubled the bandwidth for the DVI digital mode, allowing higher resolutions and higher refresh rates.

By comparison HDMI can only do a single digital link.

DVI is great IMO.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not going to lie, while I appreciate the 3 modes that is the part that I think I ended up hating, not that it could do that but that so many times you would get either a cable or a port that would only accept -a or more often -d made it incredably hard.

I can also appreciate that on paper DVI is amazing and should still be arround, (also Displayport should be more popular than HDMI ... HDMI should be the port in the grave) it does not mean I do not have this irrational hatred for DVI that makes no sense at all...

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not judging. I just wanted to detail a couple of my favorite things about it.

I'm not foolish enough to think I'm going to change your mind about it. Your criticisms are valid, and you are free to like or dislike anything you wish.

Have a good day.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've recently plugged and unplugged a lot of monitors, and the way DP keeps itself attached it with those little claws, and you have to push a button to release it. But when there's 4 monitors plugged into the same GPU, you can't access those buttons. The struggle was real.

In comparison the DVI connector just needed a screwdriver

[–] SirHenry@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

'just' lol. Nerver mind that you have to reach that fucker.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Someone gets me.

DP is great until you actually want to unplug it.

I'd rather the little latch than nothing at all.