USB video?

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > Why do servers still have VGA + PS/2?
> 
>   From what I see, most have VGA and USB, these days.
> 
> >  Because most KVMs haven't switched?
> 
>   I'm not privy to their design meetings, but I would suppose:
> 
>   VGA is cheaper, both to build a video source, and to build a switch.
  ...

Or flip it around: why have other systems eliminated them? Among other
things, because they are subject to "analog sunset 2013" AACS licensing
requirements. Some server systems may still be able to get away with
including VGA ports, I don't know.

-mm-  (still riding that hobbyhorse)