Digital Visual Interface

Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video interface standard that transmits digital display signals; DVI-I variants can also carry analog video.

Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling: A signaling method that encodes data for transmission over differential pairs while limiting signal transitions. DVI uses this method to transmit digital video over its data channels.
HDMI: A digital audio and video interface standard widely used by televisions, computers, and consumer electronics. HDMI carries audio alongside video, while DVI primarily targets display video.
Computer monitor: An electronic display designed to present visual output from a computer. DVI was widely used to connect computers to monitors with digital video input.
Digital Display Working Group: An industry consortium that developed the Digital Visual Interface specification. The group coordinated DVI’s creation and published its initial specification in 1999.
DVI connector: A family of connectors defined for DVI video connections, with pins for digital and, in some variants, analog signals. Its pin layout reveals which DVI signals a cable or port can carry.
DisplayPort: A digital display interface standard designed to connect computers with monitors and other displays. DisplayPort offers a newer packet-based approach and supports features beyond DVI’s design.
Digital projector: An optical device that projects an image from a video source onto a screen or surface. Many projectors use DVI inputs to receive digital video from computers.
Silicon Image: A semiconductor company known for developing digital video technologies, including TMDS. Its TMDS technology became the digital signaling foundation for DVI.
Single-link DVI: A DVI configuration using one digital link, supporting pixel clocks up to 165 MHz. It is the standard digital configuration for lower-bandwidth DVI displays.
VGA connector: An analog video connector commonly used to connect computers to displays. DVI’s digital signaling avoids the analog conversion used by VGA connections.

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TeXBroader topic: Classic TeX engines emit DVI instructions for later conversion or printing.