Any good High-Def Cardbus/PCMCIA Video Cards available?

My laptop has SVGA and S-Video out, but no DVI-out. So I was wondering if
there's anywhere I can find a Cardbus/PCMCIA video card that has a DVI output
on it. There seem's to've been one popular one out there, which is now
discontinued, and all the other things I've found (cardbus or firewire outputs
going to a box with multiple DVI outputs) seem to be geared towards high-end
corporate presentations, and not home video.

Anyone know of any such beast? Google results are disappointing.

- Tim

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"Spammay Blockay" wrote in message
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My laptop has SVGA and S-Video out, but no DVI-out. So I was wondering if
there's anywhere I can find a Cardbus/PCMCIA video card that has a DVI
output
on it. There seem's to've been one popular one out there, which is now
discontinued, and all the other things I've found (cardbus or firewire
outputs
going to a box with multiple DVI outputs) seem to be geared towards
high-end
corporate presentations, and not home video.

Anyone know of any such beast? Google results are disappointing.

- Tim

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you could get a VGA to DVI cable...

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Mike wrote:

"Spammay Blockay" wrote in message
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My laptop has SVGA and S-Video out, but no DVI-out. So I was wondering if
there's anywhere I can find a Cardbus/PCMCIA video card that has a DVI
output
on it. There seem's to've been one popular one out there, which is now
discontinued, and all the other things I've found (cardbus or firewire
outputs
going to a box with multiple DVI outputs) seem to be geared towards
high-end
corporate presentations, and not home video.

Anyone know of any such beast? Google results are disappointing.

- Tim

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you could get a VGA to DVI cable...

That would mean losing much of the precision in the original signal.
It's not the getting of DVI output only, but preserving the accuracy
of the image.

- Tim

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"Mike" wrote in message
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you could get a VGA to DVI cable...
Such a cable doesn't exist, at least none that will make the analog VGA
signals into digital DVI data.

Spammay Blockay wrote:
My laptop has SVGA and S-Video out, but no DVI-out. So I was wondering if
there's anywhere I can find a Cardbus/PCMCIA video card that has a DVI output
on it. There seem's to've been one popular one out there, which is now
discontinued, and all the other things I've found (cardbus or firewire outputs
going to a box with multiple DVI outputs) seem to be geared towards high-end
corporate presentations, and not home video.

Anyone know of any such beast? Google results are disappointing.

- Tim

If your TV has a DVI input, you can use an SVGA to DVI cable. I use one
in my setup (laptop to TV) and it works great.

click here for the SVGA to DVI cable:
http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat%5Fid=2801&sortType=length&sor tDir=ASC&engine=adwords!654&keyword=%28dvi+to+vga+ cable%29

-Naz

"dg" wrote in message
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"Mike" wrote in message
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you could get a VGA to DVI cable...
Such a cable doesn't exist, at least none that will make the analog VGA
signals into digital DVI data.


I'll have to take a closer look at the cable I use to hook up my laptop to
my tv

Naz Reyes wrote:

Spammay Blockay wrote:
My laptop has SVGA and S-Video out, but no DVI-out. So I was wondering if
there's anywhere I can find a Cardbus/PCMCIA video card that has a DVI
output on it. There seem's to've been one popular one out there, which is
now discontinued, and all the other things I've found (cardbus or
firewire outputs going to a box with multiple DVI outputs) seem to be
geared towards high-end corporate presentations, and not home video.

Anyone know of any such beast? Google results are disappointing.

- Tim

If your TV has a DVI input, you can use an SVGA to DVI cable. I use one
in my setup (laptop to TV) and it works great.

click here for the SVGA to DVI cable:

http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat%5Fid=2801&sortType=length&sor tDir=ASC&engine=adwords!654&keyword=%28dvi+to+vga+ cable%29

That, my friend, is an SVGA to SVGA cable that just happens to have one end
configured to use the SVGA pins on a DVI-I connector instead of the HD15
connector.

It does not support digital signalling, which appears to be what the OP is
seeking.

-Naz

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J. Clarke wrote:
Naz Reyes wrote:

Spammay Blockay wrote:
My laptop has SVGA and S-Video out, but no DVI-out. So I was wondering if
there's anywhere I can find a Cardbus/PCMCIA video card that has a DVI
output on it. There seem's to've been one popular one out there, which is
now discontinued, and all the other things I've found (cardbus or
firewire outputs going to a box with multiple DVI outputs) seem to be
geared towards high-end corporate presentations, and not home video.

Anyone know of any such beast? Google results are disappointing.

- Tim

If your TV has a DVI input, you can use an SVGA to DVI cable. I use one
in my setup (laptop to TV) and it works great.

click here for the SVGA to DVI cable:

http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat%5Fid=2801&sortType=length&sor tDir=ASC&engine=adwords!654&keyword=%28dvi+to+vga+ cable%29

That, my friend, is an SVGA to SVGA cable that just happens to have one end
configured to use the SVGA pins on a DVI-I connector instead of the HD15
connector.

It does not support digital signalling, which appears to be what the OP is
seeking.

Plus, as mentioned, I want to preserve the integrity of the video images
that are being created in the card's memory; I would think that DVI, being
digital, would be a one-to-one represenatation of the card's idea of the
image, and thus wouldn't lose anything in clarity of precision when shown
on the LCD display I'll be using.

- Tim

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"dg" wrote in message
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"Mike" wrote in message
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you could get a VGA to DVI cable...
Such a cable doesn't exist, at least none that will make the analog VGA
signals into digital DVI data.

If the interface is DVI-I, it has analog on the extra pins arranged in a +
on one side. Most consumer electronics don't use the analog option, but
many computers have it.

Leonard