DVI Connectors

DVI is an acronym and means "Digital Visual Interface". DVI was developed to send digital information from a computer to a digital display. It uses transition minimized differential signaling to transmit large amounts of digital data from the source to the display. The result is a high-quality image. DVI technology is now found not only on personnal computers but also on many TVs, DVD players, and HDTV set-top boxes. The DVI interface uses a connector that resembles a DB-style connection. However, instead of round pins, the DVI connector uses flattened pins. This design makes a good contact with the mating connector. The DVI connector on a device is given one of three names, depending on which signals it implements: DVI-I (integrated, combines digital and analog in the same connector; digital may be single or dual link), DVI-D (digital only, single link or dual link), DVI-A (analog only).