[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:57 PM, David Zanetti <dave2 at wetstring.net> wrote:
>>
>> SD Component is nowhere near as good as VGA in effective resolution.
>>
>> So I'd put them:
>>
>> Composite
>> S-Video, SD Component
>> VGA, HD Component
>> DVI, HDMI <= 1.3
>> HDMI >= 1.4, DisplayPort
>
> Yes. The only thing I'd add is that the difference between VGA and DVI may
> be small or large depending on the display device. On my 19" LCD monitors I
> can't see any difference between the VGA and DVI inputs. On my old 42"
> plasma the difference is marked - VGA is less sharp and text often has
> annoying ghosting. The moral of the story is that it's always best to try
> the various options and see which works acceptably for you.

Often the TV will apply different processing to different inputs. VGA
is seen as a computer input that does not need much processing,
whereas HDMI/DVI is seen as a TV style input which will be
overscanned, possibly interlaced, possibly in need of mpeg2 correction
etc etc.