the dvi connection is all digital and will provide a much better picture
than the vga connector.  if you use dvi, the signal stays digital until
the flat panel drives the lcd, if you use vga, it's converted to analog
for the cable, and then the flat panel has to convert it back to digital
increasing distortion and losing some timing precision.  don't expect to
see the "adc" connector on anything other than macs, it's apples attempt
to make things proprietary and grab a bigger share of the peripheral
market by being nonstandard.  

there is another digital "standard" out there, many companies are
waiting for one or the other to become "THE" standard and the other to
die off, sort of like when vcr's came out and there was a betamax and a
vhs standard, as soon as betamax died off allot more tapes were
available since they didn't have to duplicate them to 2 standards and
stores didn't have to stock to versions of each title.

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> 
> So...is DVI what the professional people use?  Like is DVI most likely
> going to be the priority for higher end video cards for a while?  I
> already see that the Radeon 9700 Mac Edition (as far as I know) is
> going to have a VGA and a DVI port...no ADC.
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