It's lamentable that our TVs don't come with VGA inputs or even DVI.
My first "nice" flatscren in 2012 or so had both VGA inputs and a DB9 serial port I could control the TV over!
HDMI accepts DVI signals; all you need is a passive adapter, to connect a DVI-D output to an HDMI input.
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