Displayport: A Better Video Interface
The amazing thing about DVI, and by extension HDMI, is that it&#x27;s just VGA but digital, with all the timing and synchronisation complexity that implies. Recall that DVI can have both an analog (VGA&#x2F;DVI-A) and digital (DVI-D) signal in the same cable. They aren&#x27;t independent; they share some pins and have the same timing. You could have made a CRT monitor that used DVI-D just by adding a DAC, though I&#x27;m not sure if anyone ever did.<p>DisplayPort does away with all that legacy. I assume the hardware to implement it is much simpler and more reliable.