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Yea I should have been more specific DVI-A is gone.

That said last year I needed HDMI output used a tang nano 9k (£10) and GOWINs free IDE and IP cores were a breeze to use.

The DVI core basically takes what I remember being a VGA signal.

Their HDMI core IIRC just took a framebuffer.

So my complaining is probably in the vein of old many yells at cloud.

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I don't think the DVI-A connector was ever widely used for analog video input. Devices which supported analog video input almost universally did so using a VGA connector.

The analog pins on the DVI connector were used on many video cards for output, but they were mostly there so that you could use a DVI-to-VGA adapter, not because there were many devices which could use it directly from that pinout.

DVI's signal is pretty similar to VGA, to the point that it has separate red, green, and blue channels, but instead of analog outputs it has LVDS serial outputs on each channel. It basically replaces each RAMDAC with the serial side of a SERDES.

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