Go to gdgt.com/find/ and search for Monitors, then check "DVI".
Allegedly only 5 monitors support DVI...
Go ahead and check HDCP under DVI. This will break things completely, as it finds 0 results, although there are lots of monitors with HDCP support correctly entered in the database (for example the Dell 2408WFP).
This effectively makes monitor finding useless.
Monitor find is broken when it comes to DVI
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I actually looked at the search results and...
...it seem that if the user doesn't check the checkboxes for the other input types (VGA etc.), the gadget finder interprets that as the monitor must NOT have the inputs; and not as "don't care about them". So if only DVI is checked, then only monitors that are DVI-only, with no other input types, will be returned.
Just my point at discuss.gdgt.com/gdgt/feedback/the-model-for-stori..., but hopefully easy to fix.
...it seem that if the user doesn't check the checkboxes for the other input types (VGA etc.), the gadget finder interprets that as the monitor must NOT have the inputs; and not as "don't care about them". So if only DVI is checked, then only monitors that are DVI-only, with no other input types, will be returned.
Just my point at discuss.gdgt.com/gdgt/feedback/the-model-for-stori..., but hopefully easy to fix.
That's actually not true; again, I think you may just be seeing the results of incomplete specs pages (which is an entirely separate issue). The finder tool takes the data set of the entire category and filters results based on the criteria you select. Users start with no selected criteria and each selection made is comparable to concatenating another boolean AND statement. (There's no equivalent of an OR statement.)
So if you select DVI, you will get all results that have DVI; if you also check VGA, you will get all results that have both DVI and VGA. The tool is largely premised on the assumption that you're searching for something you want, not something you don't want (although that use-case is occasionally supported as well).
So if you select DVI, you will get all results that have DVI; if you also check VGA, you will get all results that have both DVI and VGA. The tool is largely premised on the assumption that you're searching for something you want, not something you don't want (although that use-case is occasionally supported as well).
> "So if you select DVI, you will get all results that have DVI; if you also check VGA, you will get all results that have both DVI and VGA."
So if I check just the DVI checkbox, I should get at least the same number of results, but probably more, than if I tick both the DVI and VGA checkboxes. That is because in the first case the code does something like SELECT * FROM gadgets WHERE DVI = 'T', while in the second case it does something like SELECT * FROM gadgets WHERE (DVI = 'T') AND (VGA = 'T'), which by necessity is a smaller or equal subset.
The fact is that right now, if I check only DVI, I get 9 results. If I check both DVI and VGA, I get 80 results. That suggests an OR operation, or that specs are incomplete for now.
So if I check just the DVI checkbox, I should get at least the same number of results, but probably more, than if I tick both the DVI and VGA checkboxes. That is because in the first case the code does something like SELECT * FROM gadgets WHERE DVI = 'T', while in the second case it does something like SELECT * FROM gadgets WHERE (DVI = 'T') AND (VGA = 'T'), which by necessity is a smaller or equal subset.
The fact is that right now, if I check only DVI, I get 9 results. If I check both DVI and VGA, I get 80 results. That suggests an OR operation, or that specs are incomplete for now.
