Reader Mike ordered a new Dell system that came with a 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Although the monitor includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs, it included only a VGA cable–even though the setup ...

The HDMI interface is electrically identical and compatible with the video-only DVI interface, which came first. For example, if a cable box or PC has DVI out, but the TV or monitor only has HDMI ...

and that’s why a DVI source can be connected to an HDMI monitor, or vice versa, with a DVI/HDMI cable, with no intervening converter box. The upshot of this article–in case you’re not inclined to read ...

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

Attach a VGA cable from your VGA monitor to one of the VGA ports on the back of your Dell OptiPlex. If the computer only has DVI ports, attach a DVI-to-VGA adapter to the DVI port and connect the ...

Jim O’Neill of Sammamish, Washington wants to use his HDTV as a computer monitor ... not use the DVI output from my computer in the TV’s HDMI port (via a DVI-to-HDMI cable).

At work I'm using a Dell ... monitor. Since work is not going to buy a LCD I found another CRT monitor to use. The hard part is how to connect the second monitor. I searched around and can not ...