My GTS250 has failed so I need to get a new card. I don't play cutting edge games so another GTS250 would be fine, or maybe something a little better, but I see the equivalent card to my old 250 has different ports. I had dvi+dvi+tvout, but nearly all the current GTS250 and 260 cards are dvi+hdmi+dsub.
I want to run two monitors on my pc and occasionally put movies or iPlayer out to a TV. So dvi+dvi+tvout is exactly what I want. Now I can understand that TVs are changing and CRT TVs like mine are old-school with most new TVs taking hdmi connections, so there's a good chance an s-video connection is going to be harder to find these days. But even if I had a new HDTV I'd want dvi+dvi+hdmi. So why are so many newer cards using dvi+hdmi+dsub? Who wants dsub anymore? Analogue monitor connections have been dying out since the day dvi was introduced but now it's making a comeback? I don't get it. At the very least I would expect another dvi port and a freebie dvi-to-dsub converter in the box.
Has the industry really taken a backwards step or am I missing something?
The only logic I could make of this is when I read about some graphics chips being able to put s-video out through vga/dsub connectors where you just need a cheap dsub-to-din converter. But for all the cards specs I've seen, if they mention tv-out they say "tv-out: no" and none of them come bundled with such a converter cable, so I don't think is a standard function.
I want to run two monitors on my pc and occasionally put movies or iPlayer out to a TV. So dvi+dvi+tvout is exactly what I want. Now I can understand that TVs are changing and CRT TVs like mine are old-school with most new TVs taking hdmi connections, so there's a good chance an s-video connection is going to be harder to find these days. But even if I had a new HDTV I'd want dvi+dvi+hdmi. So why are so many newer cards using dvi+hdmi+dsub? Who wants dsub anymore? Analogue monitor connections have been dying out since the day dvi was introduced but now it's making a comeback? I don't get it. At the very least I would expect another dvi port and a freebie dvi-to-dsub converter in the box.
Has the industry really taken a backwards step or am I missing something?
The only logic I could make of this is when I read about some graphics chips being able to put s-video out through vga/dsub connectors where you just need a cheap dsub-to-din converter. But for all the cards specs I've seen, if they mention tv-out they say "tv-out: no" and none of them come bundled with such a converter cable, so I don't think is a standard function.
