info on DVI cables

if you own a computer and want to get the most out of it or your using it for video editing or gaming, you may have bought a new graphics card and you may notice along side the blue VGA or d-sub socket (the one you plug your monitor into) there may be a longer white (sometimes yellow, black, and even gray) socket, it may be labeled DVI (digital video interface). most monitors are coming with this type of connection now and you may think great ill go out and buy a DVI cable and make use of that socket, but you know theirs loads of different types of DVI cable, and if you don't know you may buy the wrong one get home and find it doesn't fit, AHHH, NOW WHAT...

This video will hopefully prevent this annoying but VERY common situation.

This is a video showing you 5 different types of DVI cable what they do and more importantly how they are different.

More info coming soon...

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• DVI
• cable
• DVI-I
• DVI-D
• DVI-A
• dual
• link
• socket
• graphics
• card
• VGA
• D-SUB

[X360HotSwap]

Did you miss that the middle "blade" is shorter on the DVI-D than the DVI-I? just wanted to let ppl know coz ive done the pin snapping and the middle still never fit... so ive snapped that off too but now im to scared to jack it in in case i short out my beautiful computer.

[viperfrank]

@X360HotSwap That's why I don't recommend you do it, its a bit dodgy, if you did plug it in and it shorted it probably wouldn't do much,most likely the video output decoder would detect the short and shut down and stop receiving data from the chip-set until the short was removed.

So basically, black screen.

But I still don't recommend you try it, you never know what it might do.

Thanks for your comment.

Nice One ; )

[Zio231]

Excellent video =D

[viperfrank]

@Zio231 Than you, I'm glad you like the video.

Nice One ; )

[Sigh1986]

saved my ass! Great video thanks very much

[viperfrank]

@Sigh1986 Thank you, I'm glad you like the video.

I will try to get some more videos up soon.

thanks again for your comment and your kind words.

nice one!!!

[zeepman]

Thanks for the vid but could you also mention 59 pin DVis? I had a heckuva time finding what the heck it was lol.

[cqa84n]

Thank you for a well explained 'dvi lecture'. My pc has dvi-i and my monitor has dvi-d dual. Can I get a converter for this configuration?

[thepricylon]

If i wanna connect PS3 to my LCD-Monitor which has only VGA port, can i use a HDMI splitter which has an HDMI -Female and DVI-D-Female, and then using an DVI-D cabel and use and DVI-I To VGA adapter, i tried, and im only got Black screen and my monitor has more than 50Hz! i need realy help with this!

[rbnsandoval]

Cool, helped. Thanks!

[binashraf]

hi, if i have one dvi port on the back of my monitor, is there a way to connect 2 different things to that one dvi port? for example my playstation AND my pc, both to one monitor using that ONE dvi port? is there some sort of splitter available to make that one dvi port into two ports?