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Cryoma · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:05 pm Post subject: Is DVI

better than VGA?
As good as HDMI?

Haswell · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:09 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVDejZH4kw

Sums everything up.

Hero · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject:

DVI > all, and thats all you need to know.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: Is DVI

Gypsy++ · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject:

VGA > Outdated junk
DVI > Modern Standard
HDMI > Modern Standard
Display Port > Becoming Modern Standard

kls85 · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject:

Yet another video which only informs us on how each type of connector looks like (along with its type of cable) without any real world comparison in terms of image quality.

As a home user most of us will have 1 monitor and if lucky enough 2 monitors at most. Testing out all the type of connections will results in to purchasing 4 monitors (exact model) running at the same resolution and placing them side by side to notice anything.

If you only have a single monitor then testing out VGA and DVI one at a time. You won't notice any sort of microscopic difference between the two.
But since VGA is analog and DVI is digital, we automatically think DVI is better because it's "digital".

If the clip shows all type of connections in a side by side comparison, you might notice a difference between VGA and DVI, but what will the image quality be for DVI compared to the other two (HDMI and DisplayPort), since all 3 of them are consider to be "digital"?

As for your question...

If you are connecting your computer to a monitor, use DVI
If you are connecting your computer to a HDTV, use HDMI

As slovach mentioned HDMI carries sound, this reduces the mess and cable clutter since a single cable can transmit both audio and video, but there is a catch.

HDMI over audio will only work if your graphic card has a built in audio codec. Certain graphic card don't have it, thus you will need to plug the supplied audio cable from the graphic card into the SPDIF header on the motherboard. If you don't have that plugged in, there won't be any audio even if you use HDMI.

HDMI as said in the clip is currently at 1.4a.
HDMI 1.4 also supports Ethernet*

*Requires devices and HDMI cables with Ethernet support.
Current graphic cards from AMD and Nvidia runs at HDMI 1.4a.
According to the web, AMD's HDMI lacks Ethernet support. Don't know about Nvidia.

Btw, VGA to many of us seems outdated, but it's still a standard that is still being used.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject:

i think it's technically possible for dvi to carry sound, but the number of channels are limited.

also, amd for one is looking to phase out VGA in upcoming years.

bring on the new standard already if only to get rid of those eyesores.

Cryoma · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:15 am Post subject:

Ok I don't want to use monitor speakers anyway, I have a speaker setup seperate, so hdmi isn't for me.
My computer had ports for everything, so I was going to hook up my nice monitor to DVI and my old one to VGA and then have two displays, so I wanted to know which one would be better for the 1080pness.

kls85 · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:43 pm Post subject:

How old is your old monitor?
What is its maximum resolution?

If your old monitor does not have HDMI, but a DVI, then you can setup like this.

Connect the HDMI cable to your new monitor and the DVI to your old monitor. Both of them will support up to 1920x1080.
Since you don't want to sound from coming out from your monitor and you got a separate speaker setup.

All you have to do is head over to the audio properties in control panel and set your speaker as the default device.

Cryoma · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:42 pm Post subject: