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Now let's look at the remainder of the external connections and let's talk about the monitors. Monitors have changed a lot just in the last two or three years, and so let's first look at the VGA. Now VGA stands for Video Graphics Array, and you can see in this photo here's the VGA connector, and you will notice it is a 15-pin connector. It's three rows of 15 pins and this has been the standard for quite some time, and it's ah pretty straightforward. Now, there's also kind of a new kid on the block who's DVI, which is Digital Video Interface. Now DVI you'll notice has a very unique white connector on the computer and it gives a clearer picture and it's just like more bells and whistles and so forth. Now S-Video is a unique thing, and it's this one right here in the middle. It kind of looks like a DIN connector; actually it is a, a version of a DIN connector, but this thing lets you do cool stuff like plug video cameras directly into your computer, various video devices, hardware, and so forth. Now, you see on this picture here, this card has all three devices, or all three ports on it, and that's not unusual nowadays, as a matter of fact, you will see some computers now, and this is a really cool configuration to have, because if you got DVI and a VGA card that means you can hook two monitors up to this computer. And it's not unusual to see cards with two VGAs or two DVIs or whatever. The monitor connections you will see on the exams so just make sure that you can spot them, just visually, and then know that the VGA is a 15-pin, on three lines within the S-Video. Now, the kind of the newest kid on the block is HDMI, and I just wanted to show you a picture of it so that you can see what it looks like here. It's very unique looking, and this is kind of the next level, and so there's, there's all kinds of things constantly happening. This is High Definition Multimedia Interface. Now, we're headed toward a time, this will not be on the exam, I just find it fascinating; we're headed toward a time that we're going to see high definition and so forth on our computers, and we will probably see the television go away and become married to the computer. They've talked about this for years. It looks like it's probably headed this way now. So, let me close this. By looking at this photo, and this is a neat one and you can use this to kind of study by, ah, just pause the video, but notice up here, this is on the back of a PC, here are our little DIN ports, our mini-DIN ports, our PS2 ports, here's our USB A ports, here's our RJ45, this is our network connection. These are serial ports, these look like, what, 9-pin, uh, something like that, let's see, ah, yeah, I think those are 9-pins. Here's a 25-pin DB port, this is DB, DB, right, serial ports, and this is probably for a printer. Now I didn't mention this thing, and, and I want to just point this out. This say 15-pin serial port, this is a game port, like your joystick, or some game controllers and stuff plug in here, and then you'll notice down here, here's your audio jacks, that's your, your speakers, and that's probably, I guess, line in, this is microphone, something like that, and then down here, on, here's your video card. Here's your VGA, and then here's your S-Video, and this is some other sort of video or audio, this is probably some sort of video input, oh, I'm sorry, TV out. You can see here, there's a, there's a, ah, legend here for you. So, anyway, make sure that you're familiar with this picture and you can identify these ports by looking at them and you should be absolutely fine for the exam.