{"id":51668,"date":"2026-03-10T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=51668"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:58:25","slug":"electronics-dvi-part-one-what-is-dvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electronics-dvi-part-one-what-is-dvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics: DVI, part one: what is DVI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about technology one encounters: the tutor mentions DVI.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nYesterday I was looking at the back of a smart TV, wondering why something didn&#8217;t work. It turns out it wasn&#8217;t the smart TV&#8217;s fault. Nonetheless, such explorations are learning opportunities&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat caught my attention was a port that looked like HDMI, but said DVI beside it. I wondered what that means, so looked it up.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt turns out that DVI means Digital Visual Interface. Apparently it arose in 1999, then became common among monitors and projectors. It seems DVI only delivers video output.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are adapters from DVI to HDMI, which explains the port on the back of the smart TV. It&#8217;s probably labeled DVI to mean that it will only process video information.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilepixels.us\/pages\/what-is-dvi-port?srsltid=AfmBOopMbCqdM1-D-WeHABWiijTi9uI0RsDtirrnJzZ4Spqhxdk2vBfY\">mobilepixels.us: What Is DVI Port?<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about technology one encounters: the tutor mentions DVI. The following is according to my understanding. Yesterday I was looking at the back of a smart TV, wondering why something didn&#8217;t work. It turns out it wasn&#8217;t the smart TV&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electronics-dvi-part-one-what-is-dvi\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electronics: DVI, part one: what is DVI?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,458],"tags":[4127,4126],"class_list":["post-51668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-technology","tag-dvi-port-on-back-of-smart-tv","tag-what-does-dvi-mean-in-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51673,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51668\/revisions\/51673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}