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Your Computer Cable Can Make or Break your Setup

The idea of what a computer is is in flux right now. But we are not entirely doing away with screens on them or attached to them yet. The future of computing may be ambient but right now, we are not there yet. Our computers still need monitors and those still have to be attached via cables. The older connectors are DVI, S video and VGA. These are barely in use now unless the computer and monitor you are using are significantly old. The newer monitor cables are DisplayPort, HDMI, and USB C. The switch from analog to digital happened with the DVI cable. Now that most of the industry is doing away most of the ports on their laptops, and sticking with just the USB C port, this also changes the computer cable we tend to need. USB C is gaining popularity for being the cable to rule them all. You can use it to transfer data, as a charging cable and both at the same time at extremely fast speeds. Older cables also happen to be clunkier, and limited to single purposes, whereas the newer ...

Factors to Consider Before Buying SVGA Monitor Cables

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Buying SVGA cables might sound simple to you. And with everything available online these days, purchasing monitor cables is just a matter of a click. However, even after buying SVGA monitor cables , people experience poor image quality. This is because they have failed to consider certain important aspects. There are three major factors you need to keep in mind before buying these monitor cables. Type of monitor Distance from the output device Age of your PC Now let us understand each of these aspects in detail: 1. Type of monitor: Standard/Widescreen The latest widescreen monitors use SVGA signal which gets processed by using DDC Channels. These DDC Channels make the resolutions such that they fit the pixel ratios of the screen. If the DDC channels are absent, the image formed on the screen is poor and does not fit the screen. It is easy to figure out if the monitor output device is DDC compatible. All you need to do is look for Pin 9 which is sometimes missin...