Display Standards
29 entries in the Display Standards compendium.
AMD FreeSyncRoyalty-free adaptive sync for tear-free, low-latency displays.Amiga Halfbrite modeAmiga planar mode with 64 colors using half-brightness bit.Color Graphics AdapterIBM's first color graphics card for the IBM PC.Composite artifact colorsExtra colors from composite video artifacts on 1970s–80s home computers.Digital Visual InterfaceDigital and analog video interface developed by the DDWG.Enhanced Graphics AdapterIBM's 1984 color graphics standard superseding CGA and preceding VGA.Extended Graphics ArrayIBM's 1990 graphics card that defined the 1024×768 resolution.Display resolution standardsStandardized pixel dimensions for electronic visual displays.HDMIProprietary digital interface for high-quality audio and video transmission.GPMIChinese-developed audio/video interface intended as HDMI successor.Hercules Graphics CardCombined MDA text with bitmapped graphics, becoming a de facto standard.Hold-And-ModifyAmiga display mode encoding many colors via per-pixel RGB channel modification.IBM 8514/AFirst mass-market fixed-function GPU, introduced with IBM PS/2 in 1987.IBM Monochrome Display AdapterIBM's 1981 monochrome text-only display adapter for the IBM PC.Mode 13hStandard 256-color VGA mode with linear framebuffer.Mode XA 320×240 256-color VGA mode with square pixels and planar memory.Monitor Control Command SetVESA standard for binary monitor control protocol.Multi-Color Graphics ArrayIBM's brief 256-color analog video subsystem for PS/2 Models 25 and 30.Nvidia G-SyncProprietary Nvidia adaptive sync technology using a dedicated hardware module.Plantronics ColorplusEnhanced CGA card with double memory and extra color modes.Quadram QuadcolorEnhanced CGA graphics card with optional color-depth doubling.Retina displayApple's branded high-pixel-density displays with variable resolution thresholds.Super VGAA broad standard extending VGA, commonly denoting 800×600 resolution.Tandy Graphics AdapterEnhanced CGA-compatible graphics standard for Tandy 1000 computers.Ultrawide formatsAspect ratios greater than 2, spanning cinema to monitors.Video Electronics Standards AssociationAmerican standards body for computer display standards.Video Graphics ArrayLast IBM graphics standard to achieve industry-wide conformity.WiDiIntel's discontinued wireless display streaming technology.ZX Spectrum graphic modesFixed 256×192 bitmap with 8×8 color cell limitations.
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