Ever remove the Digital to Analog converter from an LCD?

Noticed lots of people hacking displays to get LCDs to work with their VGA cards... I have the opposite situation:

I have an SVA 17" LCD screen that uses an analog (VGA) input. I figure it must have a DAC in the display housing somewhere... Since I now have a board with DVI output, I'm wondering if I could hack out the DAC from the display and convert the display to accept a DVI input.

Has anyone ever done this? I haven't cracked the display's case yet, but I'm thinking I might do some exploratory surgery this weekend and see what's what.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Regards,
Drew

you don't need to go through all of that. you just need a dvi-to-vga converter. i have no idea how much they cost (they've always come w/ the vcards that have dvi that i've had), but i can't imagine them being THAT much.

less than 10 USD usually around 4 to 7 buck

[Omega]

Well, I think you mean that the LCD has an analog to digital converter built in, and you want to bypass that.

SVGA output is analog, LCD output is digital, the signal on a video card is digital. This means that when using an LCD with SVGA input, the original signal has to be converted to analog, go to the LCD, and be converted back into digital. This is a lossy process, which is why DVI is by far the preferred method when available. The digital signal on the video card is simply modulated to be output on the DVI, and once it reaches the LCD, it can be modulated to be output. Signal conversion doesn't need to occur, so no quality is lost.

I've never heard of this sort of modification being done, and I'm guessing it's realistically impossible. The electronics are precision tuned, and very high-quality dependant, so even if you were able to somehow find, and mod on a DVI stream remodulator and a DVI port, I'm thinking you'd end up f-ing up the signal badly enough, by going through user-done solder points that you'd just end up spending dozens of man-hours wrecking an expensive piece of equipment.

I may be too presumptuous, though, and I'm not an expert in the field, so feel free to provide contradictory evidence.