Are you seeing what I'm seeing!?!?

splitting hairs, but yeah, VGA signal through an SVGA standard socket, which DVI works. no framemasters or any of that...stuff required!
i used an SVGA-to DVI genderbender with my old monitor because it wouldn't connect to the VGA box directly.
(didn't use standard computer screen inputs, just overhead projector sockets)

 

It's not an "SVGA" socket, though. It's called a VGA connector - technically, the connector is called a 15-pin D-sub connector, or DE-15. DVI is a digital signal, unlike VGA, which is analog. However, it is possible to send an analog signal over DVI. This is probably what your monitor uses. Still, to say that the Dreamcast uses DVI is incorrect. It uses VGA (RGBHV), which some devices will accept over DVI.

It may seem like splitting hairs, but these are facts. I'm not making this up.

 

Wow. $40 is roughly the price of just a saturn console over here. 0.0 Japan must've gone crazy with the system.

 

No, it isn't splitting hairs. Your post was fundamentally flawed.

 

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okay, so explain why graphics cards for computers came as 9-pin dsub, and the rest (labelled as SVGA) came in 15-pin and marked as 'super'...
i didn't make it up, pci cards are what i'm talking about, including older CBM/phillips monitors.
if you wanted to plug that into a 15-pin socket, you required a gender-bender at the least, that's not counting higher resolution, converters would also be required.
so i ask again, why was graphics cards made with a 9-pin socket (vga) and the later ones, 15-pin (SVGA) with higher resolutions?
thanks! :witless: