If you're looking to connect a computer to a TV or monitor, your choices are HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA. What's the best connection?

Adapters are available to connect VGA monitors to laptops that have HDMI or DisplayPort. NPD In-Stat is forecasting shipments of devices with DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort to pass 2 billion by 2015.

We’ve lived through VGA and the large variety of analog interfaces that preceded it, then DVI, HDMI, and at some point, we’ve started getting devices with DisplayPort support.

HDMI and DisplayPort are both capable of sending high-definition video and high-res audio from a source to a display. We compare their feature sets and typical use scenarios.

Where should you stand on the DisplayPort vs HDMI debate? Depending on the specs of your rig and monitor resolution, it's not always easy to know which you ought to pick. Is it even worth using a ...

Simple question, yet oddly hard to google: Do they add any latency? Would performance be better than a DVI-D to VGA adapter? I know they have to have a DAC because DP doesn't natively output ...

DisplayPort is compatible with select devices that have other types of connections, such as VGA, DVI, and HDMI, using an adapter or adapter cable per any additional requirements.

Modern monitors are about more than just plugging in your graphics card so you can see what's going on in computer land. The typical modern monitor is packed with ports of all sorts, and you might be ...

DisplayPort cables, often described as the computer’s counterpart to television’s HDMI port, help connect your computer to other devices. That much is obvious.

Computers come with HDMI, DisplayPort, and, for desktop graphics cards, DVI; some come with "mini" variations of those ports. So how come monitors still come with VGA?

You might also have a DVI or VGA connection, which will work but have limitations. Neither of these outdated standards is as good as HDMI or DisplayPort, only supporting resolutions around 1080p.

VGA was technically incompatible with truly digital protocols like DisplayPort and HDMI. It had a storied history, but VGA has finally died.