[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Steve Hodge]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

That may be true in many cases, but my TV predates HD and both VGA and  DVI
are considered computer inputs. YMMV.

Cheers,
Steve
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