List of display interfaces

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Name	Intro year	Connector	A/D	Max resolution	Utilizations	Notes
PAL-CVBS	1956? ^[1]	RCA	Analog	728 x 576 @ 25	Early home computers
S-Video	?	Mini-DIN 4-pin	Analog	728 x 576 @ 25	Commodore Vic-20 and C64
SCART	1977	SCART 21-pin	Analog	728 x 576 @ 25	Commodore Amiga and various video games
CGA	1981	DE-9	Digital	640 x 200 @ 60	Pre-i80386 x86 machines
MDA	1981	DE-9	Digital	720 x 350 @ 50
HGC	1982	DE-9^[2]	Digital	720 x 348 @ 50
EGA	1984	DE-9	Digital	640 x 350 @ 60
VGA	1987	HD15F	Analog	2560 x 1600 @ 85	Introduced with IBM x86 machines, but became a universal analog display interface.	Nearly ubiquitous display interface in use for PCs, Laptops and computer projection units from 1990 onwards (until a digital interface supplants it)
Mac-II/Quadra	1987	DB15F	Analog	1152 x 870 @ 75	Macintosh	Mac-DB15F and Sun-13W3 were similar in capability to VGA. Some Sun machines used 4 or 5 BNC connectors to transfer video signal.
13W3	1990?	DB13W3	Analog	1152 x 900 @ 76	SUN computer systems
DVI	1999	DVI	Both	2560 x 1600 @ 60	Recent video cards	DVI was the digital display interface that won over several competing standards to answer the need for a digital computer->display link. The marketplace had previously been almost exclusively analog.
ADC	2000	Apple-ADC	Both	2560 x 1600 @ 60	Apple computers	Proprietary modification of DVI
HDMI	2003	HDMI-A/B/C	Digital	2560 x 1536 @ 120	Many A/V systems and video cards (including motherboards with IGP)	HDMI use a content protection system HDCP which only allows devices with HDCP key(s) to transmit high-definition content.
UDI	2006	"USB alike plug with single row of 26 pins"	Both	?	None as of 2007	Intel has withdrawn from the promoter group and supports another standard, DisplayPort.
DisplayPort	2007	20-pin (external) 32-pin (internal)	Digital	2560 x 1600 @ 70 (for 6.9 Gbit/s link)	None as of 2007 upcoming: ATI RV670 based graphics cards and NVIDIA G92 graphics cards (both as OEM optional implementations)	DisplayPort introduced the 128bit-AES to replace HDCP. DisplayPort also includes a notebook internal connector, something the HDMI and DVI specifications lack.