[G4] adc cinema display _known issues?

[stefan moller]

I see now and might understand after quick search at the net that there 
are several versions of these flat screens.  There ´s a model in an 
advert called apple cinema display ADC and I´ve found another one 
called Apple Studio Display Lcd TFT. So I´m talkin about all these 
older flatscreens (leaning backwards like a picture of wife and kids at 
the office desktop at work) that I guess were matched for the line of 
g4:s around that time (let´s say around 2001?) .

my qs has an AGP card with both an ADC and a VGA connector.

so I guess I could use the ADC port but it might not be that great

or should I use the VGA with an adaptor and that´s better but not that 
great either.

  according to wikipedia on DVI subject it says:

"The DVI is partially compatible with the HDMI standard in digital mode 
and VGA in analog mode."

so there´s a possibility to connect and ADC screen to the VGA port via 
an DVI adaptor?

Is this correct or am I totally lost?

stefan
On Mar 4, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Ronnie Day wrote:

> Stefan,
>
> Are you talking about the later Cinema Display or the early models
> that used the ADC connector? The later Cinema Displays are great, and
> the image quality on the early ones is good, too, but they used the
> Apple Display Connector (ADC). The ADC is a proprietary connector that
> Apple used for a couple of years. To use a Cinema Display you must
> either use a video card with the ADC connector or have the Apple ADC
> to DVI converter (around $130, IIRC, but probably no longer available
> new).
>
> Apple's idea in designing the ADC was to provide power, video and USB
> through one cable. A good idea, but it added more power load to an
> already over stressed power bus structure in the G4s. If the Cinema
> Displays you're looking at include the adapters and are real cheap it
> might be worth considering. Otherwise I'd pass.
>
> FWIW,
> Ron
>
>
>> Apple cinema display ADC
>>
>> I have found some of these for sale at very good prices.
>> I´m thinking of maby get me two of these.   '
>> But at wikipedia it says there were some issues about these that I 
>> don´t
>> understand.
>>
>> Is there anything I should be worried about in this matter?
>>
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