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I had quite a few VGA video cards over that period of time and I think I only ever had one each that could do composite or svideo. I think at best it's somethin
by stormbrew 8y ago
I had quite a few VGA video cards over that period of time and I think I only ever had one each that could do composite or svideo. I think at best it's something you could go out of your way for if you wanted but I don't remember it ever being the default. And definitely not on any integrated graphics on a motherboard that I can remember in the 386 to DVI/HDMI era.
- hakfoo 8y agoThere was a period where a lot of cards were sold with "TV out" as a bullet point-- usually a weird little port that connected to a breakout cable to provide S-video and/or component and composite. This seemed to be most common in the late AGP and early PCI-E era -- Geforce 2/3/4/FX/6, Radeon 8xxx/9xxx cards. Before that, you could either get a "scan converter" which would convert VGA into composite video, or a specialty monitor which was typically a 27" or 32" CRT TB capable of synching to 640x480 VGA. When flat-panel TVs started coming out they typically had a VGA or DVI port, and shortly thereafter HDMI, so it became moot.
- stormbrew 8y agoKeep in mind here that the topic is cheap computers and once you get into scan converters and agp and pci-e gpus, let alone special monitors, we're well outside that realm.