li21 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Hi all, If I am outputting video from my laptop to an LCD TV.. is there any noticable difference between using HDMI or VGA d-sub? VGA is a lot cheaper to get cables for. I might be consufed, but does VGA upscale and HDMI does not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjc Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Hi all,If I am outputting video from my laptop to an LCD TV.. is there any noticable difference between using HDMI or VGA d-sub? VGA is a lot cheaper to get cables for. I might be consufed, but does VGA upscale and HDMI does not? Both VGA and DVI can carry HD signal upto 1080p. Difference being VGA is analogue whereas DVI is digital (+ digital audio stream = HDMI). As I posted in another thread I tried both with short cables from DSE then returned the one I didn't prefer. Philip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
li21 Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 Thanks, ill give both a try. I just noted in my TV manual that my VGA input max res is 1280x768 ? Is this normal for an LCD VGA input? Its not even a wide screen resolution nor is it the native 1366x768? Will that look strange on the TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjc Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Thanks, ill give both a try.I just noted in my TV manual that my VGA input max res is 1280x768 ? Is this normal for an LCD VGA input? Its not even a wide screen resolution nor is it the native 1366x768? Will that look strange on the TV? My Hitachi wasn't meant to take 1080x1920 but it does! Try it . Philip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trojan Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 My Hitachi wasn't meant to take 1080x1920 but it does! Try it .Philip I connected my Dell 9400 up to my Samsung 1366x768 LCD TV with both VGA cable and DVI/HDMI cable. My notebook recognised the TV's resolution and changed the notebook to 1360x768 when using VGA cable so the display was 1:1 pixel mapping (with 6 unused vertical lines on the TV) However when using DVI/HDMI cable, I could not change it to that resolution and thus forcing some scaling involved and hence a bit blurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabal Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 VGA is a lot cheaper to get cables for. Get a DVI to HDMI adaptor (less than 10 bucks on ebay) then you can just use a DVI cable which seem to be a lot cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinX Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 My Pio has HDMI and VGA inputs but it specifically said in the manual that HDMI wasn't to be used for PC VGA signals. So I plugged my Mac Mini in using VGA, it seems to have reset itself for the right res (WTF? it can do that? ay-may-zing) and Frontrow looks terrific. Especially using G-Force as a screensaver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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