Connecting Computer to HDTV

[artemicion]

So if I wanted to use an HDTV as my computer monitor, and say the hdtv didn't have a DVI port, is there any loss of fidelity or whatever if it only has a VGA port? Or is there a converter that converts DVI to HDMI? Is there any quality issues with that?

Thanks!

 

[speckedhoncho]

For me the text is bad either way. But gaming and movies are much better.

The pixels and pixel pitch is greater on TVs but that is part of the cost advantage since you're supposed to be further away. The downside is that any font below 14pt is terrible to read from more than 2ft away.

With browsers and the desktop and many application view options you can resize the font.

Still, the picture is more grainy on my 720p; it has a VGA connector and the picture was not grainy and pixels blended together much better. However, movies and games were not more grainy that the desktop. I assume it is the scaling and color correction of games' and movies ' rasterizers.

So all in all, if you are not using the computer as a media player and you find a monitor of the same size and price, you should get the monitor; but I don't follow newer LCD monitors. I chose an HDTV over a monitor because I didn't think there were any 26" + monitors with glass instead of a matte screen.

 

[jto168]

Originally posted by: artemicion
So if I wanted to use an HDTV as my computer monitor, and say the hdtv didn't have a DVI port, is there any loss of fidelity or whatever if it only has a VGA port? Or is there a converter that converts DVI to HDMI? Is there any quality issues with that?

Thanks!

I recommend a DVI-HDMI cable, which would allow you to keep the digital signal for better reproduction of the image.

There are converters that do DVI/HDMI, that would also work too. It's probably the cheaper solution if you already have an existing DVI-DVI cable.