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First post, by northernosprey02

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I wonder what is purpose of VESA Feature connector on old video card other than reduce CPU overhead.

And which is vintage component that using this connector to connect from video card? I want to know please.....

Reply 2 of 6, by northernosprey02

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Can someone show me the picture of computer component with VESA Feature connector? Such MPEG card, TV tuner, and other than this but not video card.

Reply 3 of 6, by NJRoadfan

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The CineMaster DVD MPEG-2 decoder cards found in OEM machines like Dells used the feature connector to transmit its video overlay. The most common use for it were ISA TV tuner cards back in the day. Someone here had a high end video accelerator that used the feature connector to transmit its display through the machine's standard VGA card when it was active.

Reply 5 of 6, by SiliconClassics

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There was a mid-90's virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX1 that used the VESA feature connector to receive output from the video card.

Reply 6 of 6, by vlask

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northernosprey02 wrote:

Can someone show me the picture of computer component with VESA Feature connector? Such MPEG card, TV tuner, and other than this but not video card.

Here you have both and connected - video accel card is Creative Video Blaster.
You can check also palcals collection, creative cards there have vesa...
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/palcals-c … 9-frame-grabber

alg2301bwgfcreative.jpg

Not only mine graphics cards collection at http://www.vgamuseum.info