<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Steve Hodge <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:57 PM, David Zanetti <<a href="mailto:dave2@wetstring.net">dave2@wetstring.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> SD Component is nowhere near as good as VGA in effective resolution.<br>
>><br>
>> So I'd put them:<br>
>><br>
>> Composite<br>
>> S-Video, SD Component<br>
>> VGA, HD Component<br>
>> DVI, HDMI <= 1.3<br>
>> HDMI >= 1.4, DisplayPort<br>
><br>
> Yes. The only thing I'd add is that the difference between VGA and DVI may<br>
> be small or large depending on the display device. On my 19" LCD monitors I<br>
> can't see any difference between the VGA and DVI inputs. On my old 42"<br>
> plasma the difference is marked - VGA is less sharp and text often has<br>
> annoying ghosting. The moral of the story is that it's always best to try<br>
> the various options and see which works acceptably for you.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Often the TV will apply different processing to different inputs. VGA<br>
is seen as a computer input that does not need much processing,<br>
whereas HDMI/DVI is seen as a TV style input which will be<br>
overscanned, possibly interlaced, possibly in need of mpeg2 correction<br>
etc etc.<br></blockquote>
<div>That may be true in many cases, but my TV predates HD and both VGA and DVI are considered computer inputs. YMMV.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>
</div></div>