VirtualLarry
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Originally posted by: JackBurton
Umm, CRTs are going away and LCDs are selling at a much higher rate? Seems like we ARE moving toward dual DVI cards after all.Originally posted by: Bar81
Except they're not doing what YOU think they are doing Try taking a look around the marketplace for the reality of the situation.
Then why are so many of these "low-end" LCDs, that are supposedly taking over and driving the CRT makers out of the market, still shipping with analog VGA signal connectors, and no DVI!? Hmm. Doesn't exactly fit your "DVI for all" worldview, does it?
I think that the more accurate reality is, among low-end models, principly, 17" and under - those will likely be replaced by LCD displays, for your Average Joe computers sold at Wal-Mart. They'll think that they're getting some "spiffy new tech" LCD screens, when in fact, those displays are actually saving the mfg's money, by lower mfg/shipping/warehousing costs. That doesn't mean that they are actually better displays, because in many ways they are not, and chances are, because of existing infrastructure and cost purposes - most of them will likely continue to still have analog VGA inputs, if not only analog VGA inputs. Remember, again, the adoption of LCDs at the low-end is being driven primarily by costs, which is for the same reason retarding the growth of the DVI-interface display market. Plus, when is the last time that you saw 14/15" CRTs selling well? Other than the pre-built OEM market, where they weren't a profit item, but a check-list feature-requirement item? Truth is, for the last few years already, no-one was making any real profit off of lower-end CRT mfging anyways. So just because that is happening on the low end, doesn't mean that CRTs are being completely wiped off the face of the market. Far from it. (In a similar fashion, laptops, while more popular than ever, haven't totally displaced desktops either.)