monitor question

[Ebroach]

I see a lot of the new monitors have
both DVI and VGA ports on the monitor.

Can you use both and switch between computer 1 and 2..??

[[Admin] osborn4]

On many of them, yes. They have a button to switch between input 1 and input 2.

[boltd]

The key is to find a monitor that will "remember" which input was used last. We have a monitor in one of our booths that shows a PC via it's DVI input and a DVD output from a video scaler via it's VGA input and the monitor fails to remember that it should be showing the DVI. I think some of the problem is in the order of how things are powered up in our case. The scaler is powered on before the PC boots.

[tpichler]

Yes, very handy in keeping the clutter down.

[blonborg]

You can also buy inexpensive 2 port - KVM's (keyboard, video, mouse) switcher's for ~$20+. Lookup IOGEAR's MiniView Micro KVM Switch GCS62 for an example. I prefer the simple hardware solution rather than plugging two cables into the same monitor. Bill