Projectors

Walt Mankowski waltman at pobox.com
Fri May 31 08:47:11 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:56:06PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On 2013.05.30 2:41 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I'm wondering what sort of projectors are available.  I'm interested mostly in
> >the attachment mechanism.  VGA?  DVI?  HDMI?  DisplayPort?  I need to know so I
> >can test my laptop beforehand (and bring the right adapter). It only has a Mini
> >DisplayPort, and I'm not sure if it works with VGA as I can find no monitors
> >that accept VGA input anymore :)
> 
> Funny you say that.  In my experience, VGA is the *only* input that
> projectors I encounter at venues have most of the time. -- Darren
> Duncan

Me too, but I think what Jonathan was trying to do was test things by
pretending an external monitor is a projector. I actually did manage
to find a new monitor with a VGA jack a few months ago, which was
good since my ancient linux desktop only has VGA out. :)

Walt


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