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The old adage 'Fight fire with fire' does not apply to non-metaphorical fires
DVI begins to DVDIE
THIS YEAR MARKS doom, aye doom, for the DVI standard, market research firm In-Stat has warned.
The firm said that DVI faces hellish competition from HDMI and Displayport and will show “a steep decline” during the year of Our Lord 2008.
112 million devices shipped in 2007 but by 2011 that will drop to three million.
Brian O’Rourke, a senior analyst at In-Stat, said: “HDMI’s success continues to be enormous.” He reckons 90 per cent of digital TVs used HDMI in 2007.
The DVI demise is partly due to several large multinationals, including HP, Sony and Toshiba, cruelly ditching DVI and favouring the new kid on the block.
So if you have any compassion in your heart, shed a little tear for DVI. [Stop that blubbing. Ed.] µ
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I can't help but be a little sceptical about comments like this. Thus far I have seen only one - ONE monitor without a VGA port, and that is the 30" Dell. Indeed, many high end laptops still sport a VGA port as their primary external output.

If VGA hasn't died yet, then why on earth should DVI disappear in such a short space of time?
HDMI is, for video signals, electrically identical to DVI-D Dual-Link. You can get cables from £2.50 for a 1m cable from one supplier, and that's a gold-plated nonsense so it's probably cheaper elsewhere.

You do lose the analog compatibility from DVI-I, though - these new connectors are digital-only. Will they replace the old VGA port, or will cards continue to carry one?
Did everyone forget that HDMI is DRMed? Hello? That's the only reason DVI is going away.
@Phil Radelat

how is HDMI DRM'd? in any case HDMI is better than DVI for one reason to allow Audio/Video on the same cable, this completely eliminates a lot of not so tech-savvy users troubles when connecting a home theater. HDMI allows for HDCP content to be passed through it if thats what you mean. NO DRM HERE
I agree with Phil. The studios are pushing HDMI. I'm waiting for the (pin-compatible?) but less DRM-restricted DisplayPort to give HDMI a drubbing.

Until then, and even much longer afterward, I'll stick with VGA.
I'll stick with DVI for the time being, in fact I'm going to be ordering a motherboard with onboard DVI for my other half's PC which will eventually become a MythTV media centre PC attached to an LCD TV using a DVI to HDMI adaptor.

I just haven't told her yet!

Rob
F HDMI and it's incumbent infection. Displayport FTW!!!!!
HDCP is a standard that works just fine over HDMI as over DVI. There are both TVs and monitors that have a DVI port and handle HDCP over it. As Mike said above, HDMI is DVI-D + audio, nothing more, nothing less, HDCP can be put on top of both and adapters and converter cables exist between both.
You are correct except for just one very important thing.
HDMI is the same as DVI-"D" not DVI-"I".
The difference is that DVI-I is backward compatible to VGA or Analog but HDMI is Digital only.
Since I own the best monitor ever made, the Mitsu2070sb, which is analog and graphics cards are DVI-I, I hope HDMI does not get the chance to interfere with my best of the best monitor.
No big deal if we are talking about TVs though.