VGA vs HDMI

[Tai]

Why would vga give better quality than hdmi?

 

[Far]

it wouldn't. VGA is an analogue signal, HDMI is pure digital.

If you're at a small screen size then you don't normally notice the difference in quality, but larger screens with fast moving images you want a digital input.

this is basic stuff tai :P

 

[Tai]

lol well indeed, but vga is giving me better quality over hdmi (i didn't make that clear in op)

 

[Far]

have you got your resolution set to the monitors native? what resolution is it?

There should be absolutely no reason VGA should give you a better picture quality over HDMI

 

[Breezer]

My experience is that some TV's do not interpret the HDMI signal correctly resulting in weird artifacting like faintly colored lines in the image. Texts can be hard to read. No amount of adjusting to the underscan, overscan and other options available removed this problem completely with my TV.

I think that some monitors, though they say "HD Ready".. are just not up to the job.

EDIT: I read on some articles that the Audio can mess up the definition of HDMI. Using DVI to HDMI will cut out the audio but show a better qaulity of image.

Again , this was searched threw google. Good luck Tai.

 

[Tai]

It's a 22inch LCD Samsung tv :/ so 1080p

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-LE22D450-22-inch-Widescreen-Freeview/dp/B004S5ZUQC

There's not much in it, but it is noticeable. Hard to explain, but what Breezer said is pretty accurate

 

[JealY]

Video source? If it's your PC go with DVI.

 

[Tai]

whats dvi!

 

[JealY]

Similar to VGA (in socket) but the connector is larger, has a horizontal line in the pins and should be black/white instead of blue.

VGA

DVI

 

[Tai]

Pretty sure I don't have a connector like that though? in tv or pc

 

[JealY]

If anything you'll have DVI, not seen anything use VGA in quite a while.

 

[Tai]

nothing on the tv that looks like that

 

[Breezer]

Get HDMI to DVI connector (HDMI in TV and DVI in PC )

 

[Far]

whats dvi!

 

[Tai]

suck my VGAina

 

[Far]

 

[Tai]

its da white 1

 

[JealY]

Turns out your GPU has both DVI and VGA, wow!

Use DVI if possible, HDMI can be very... edgy shall we say at times.

 

[Tai]

i'm buying a dvi to hdmi like breez0r said

---------- Post added 20-04-2012 at 04:28 PM ---------- Previous post was 19-04-2012 at 12:40 AM ----------

So the DVI to HDMI sucks too. VGA ftw :/

 

[JealY]

Use DVI to DVI...