DVI, or Digital Video Interface
Technology came about in 1999 as
a result of the formation of the
Digital Display Working Group
(DDWG) a year prior. Their
original mission was to create a
standard digital video interface
for communication between a
Personal Computer and a
VGA monitor. Recently,
however, the consumer
electronics industry began
implementing DVD players,
set-top boxes, televisions, and
LCD/plasma monitors with DVI
technology.
 DVI-A
(DVI-Analog) is an analog
technology that is most commonly
used in the PC world to connect
Analog video cards to Analog
monitors. Since DVI-A and SVGA
are both analog signal types,
both are easily converted from
one to the other which makes it
easy to find many inexpensive
adapters and cables to convert
SVGA to DVI-A or DVI-A to SVGA.
DVI-A can easily be identified
by the 4 pins surrounding the
longest pin on the connector.
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