ATi DVI to Component Video Adapter question

[Veinman]

I am currently using the ATi DVI to component video adapter successfully in my cab with a Radeon 9800 Pro.

However, I'm going to be switching out the computer that the cabinet uses, and the computer that's going in is using a GeForce4. Will the GeForce work with the ATi adapter? I was hoping that it was simply a DVI to component adapter and that there was really nothing "ATi" about it.

[elvis]

DVI is pure digital.  Some DVI plugs also carry extra analogue data via some extra pins on the plug.

http://www.extron.com/technology/archive.asp?id=gcpinconfig
Scroll to the bottom of that page and look at the difference between DVI-D (pure digital - 24 pin) and DVI-I (digital and analogue - 29 pin).

If your plug is DVI-I, then it will suit most modern video cards with a DVI connector.  Notable exceptions are some of the early Dell Radeon cards that used a larger connector and split the dual-head connections via a cable.  Of course, the end of the splitter cable is standard DVI, and as long as you still have that cable then all is well.

[Veinman]

I found out much to my dismay that Nvidia cards DO NOT work with ATi dongles. I ended up buying a Radeon 9550 256MB for the PC, cost me $54.50 shipped.

[elvis]

In that case, the DVI->Component adaptor was not a generic unit, but specific to ATi (ie: the RGB->YUV conversion is being done by the video card and not by the adaptor).