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Best connection gfx - flatscreen?
What's the best option to use when hooking up a gaming rig toa flatscreen
if both are available? DVI-D or HDMI? What's the difference and what is gained by the better option? |
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Best connection gfx - flatscreen?
"Thomas Andersson" wrote in message
... What's the best option to use when hooking up a gaming rig toa flatscreen if both are available? DVI-D or HDMI? What's the difference and what is gained by the better option? The image quality of DVI-D and HDMI will be identical assuming the same standard of cable is being compared, as the video signal/bitstream is the same. HDMI 1.3 and 1.2 differs from DVI-D in that it may also contain up to eight channels of digtal audio (HDMI 1.0 and 1.1 carry video only). When you say flatscreen are you talking about a computer monitor or a TV? Some computer monitors don't have speakers so HDMI is not relevant. If it's a TV, and you want the audio stream played through the TV, and you don't want the inconvenience of hooking up separate component audio cables, then HDMI would be the choice. This is assuming your graphics card is able to pass a digital audio stream to its HDMI port. |
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Best connection gfx - flatscreen?
Homer Jay Simpson wrote:
What's the best option to use when hooking up a gaming rig toa flatscreen if both are available? DVI-D or HDMI? What's the difference and what is gained by the better option? The image quality of DVI-D and HDMI will be identical assuming the same standard of cable is being compared, as the video signal/bitstream is the same. Thanks, that's what I wondered, guess I'll stick with DVI. Was just curious if it would make any difference whatsoever. When you say flatscreen are you talking about a computer monitor or a TV? Some computer monitors don't have speakers so HDMI is not relevant. Talking computer monitor without speakers so HDMI would make no difference at all (and my TV is old and doesn't have HDMI). |
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