- Mar 30, 2007
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Greeting!
After months of basically putting together my HTPC piece by piece for relatively cheap I now have the dilemma of actually using it in my living room. My main problem is my TV only has 1 HDMI input and I wanted to limit cabling but a switching hdmi receiver cost way too much.
So I decided to hook up my htpc via VGA off my mobo-ati onboard-instead of the hdmi onboard since the cabling and a switcher-even at monoprice-cost more than just getting a long 20feet plus vga cable and a 20feet plus audio cable.
After looking at what monoprice has to offer they have short ish vga cables for sale 10 feet or so or really long SVGA cables so what difference will it make in image quality on my htpc to my 40 inch lg 1080i TV.
Sadly the TV does not have a dvi connector or I would be all over that but since I am planning on upgrading from onboard video to a discreet graphics card on my htpc I am hesitant to buy a 30 foot hdmi cable and a monoprice switcher for short term.
To make long post short, will IQ be good enough with the VGA or SVGA cable or should I try hdmi or even component cable off my graphic card-when I get one for it-
Thanks
http://www.monoprice.com/produ...102&cp_id=10201&style=
The cables near the bottom are the ones im interested in
After months of basically putting together my HTPC piece by piece for relatively cheap I now have the dilemma of actually using it in my living room. My main problem is my TV only has 1 HDMI input and I wanted to limit cabling but a switching hdmi receiver cost way too much.
So I decided to hook up my htpc via VGA off my mobo-ati onboard-instead of the hdmi onboard since the cabling and a switcher-even at monoprice-cost more than just getting a long 20feet plus vga cable and a 20feet plus audio cable.
After looking at what monoprice has to offer they have short ish vga cables for sale 10 feet or so or really long SVGA cables so what difference will it make in image quality on my htpc to my 40 inch lg 1080i TV.
Sadly the TV does not have a dvi connector or I would be all over that but since I am planning on upgrading from onboard video to a discreet graphics card on my htpc I am hesitant to buy a 30 foot hdmi cable and a monoprice switcher for short term.
To make long post short, will IQ be good enough with the VGA or SVGA cable or should I try hdmi or even component cable off my graphic card-when I get one for it-
Thanks
http://www.monoprice.com/produ...102&cp_id=10201&style=
The cables near the bottom are the ones im interested in
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