Today, just about every monitor, computer, and laptop uses HDMI or DisplayPort as connection ports, but two cables paved the way for both: the digital visual interface (DVI) and video graphics array ...

There is no just DVI connector, its either DVI-I, DVI-D, or DVI-A DVI-D, is purely digital, you wont be able to hook an analog monitor up to a port like this DVI-A Is purely analog (never seen this ...

I've recently aquired some new kit and all of it uses different connectors... SCART, HDMI, Mini-HDMI, Mini Display Port, DVI, VGA. Curse it all I have more adaptors than I can shake a floppy disk at.