monitor

[Stephen]

not to hard to do, if you have an 8820 or 8830 they have a qwerty
keyboard. the storm has something similar but is reasonable...
the pearl is the one thats to cramped for me.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Donn<dlshumway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Dorian Monroe <dorian.monroe at cox.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Typically all the jacks are color-coded.  Your standard vga cables that
>> have been used for the last 20ish years are usually blue on the female end.
>>
>> DVI connections are rectangular like vga, but longer and coded white.  Dvi
>> connections usually have a whole lotta pins and a single wide flat pin on
>> one end.
>>
>> Svga (or s-video) is a smallish round connection that looks like a ps/2
>> mouse or keyboard port, but its not.  Typically not color coded.
>>
>> Rca connections are usually used on stereo/vcr connections to tvs
>> (playstations, etc).  You'll see rca cables in one, two, or three (usually)
>> cables bundled together.  Yellow is coded for video, white is the
>> left-channel audio, red is the right-channel audio.  The rca cables for some
>> camcorders and likely slightly older equipment may only use two cables coded
>> yellow (for video) and white for a mono-audio signal (no right/left
>> differentiation).  On a lot of video cards, I've seen a single yellow rca
>> output for video only.
>>
>> Hdmi connections aren't usually color-coded, I think.  Usually black
>> squarish dvi-sized connections usually with a clip on each end.  Newer tvs
>> that support hi def and 1080i/720p signals usually use hdmi.
>>
>> Video quality from highest to lowest is (in general) hdmi, dvi, vga, svga,
>> rca.  I don't think you can convert hdmi to usb directly with a single
>> cable.  You'd likely need some kind of signal conversion box to do it, and
>> there'd also likely be a significant hit to video quality.  I have an ATI
>> usb tv tuner that takes the cable signal from the wall and into the pc via
>> usb.  Not the greatest, but it works well enough for me.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my blackberry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>
>
> Wow. You typed all that on your Blackberry?
>
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