dvi ???

[BigMoe]

first im sorry if this should be elsewere. I have a KDS r7s lcd but it has no dvi. Ive heard the frames look better using dvi. is this true? yes my video card has a dvi out plug. will an adaper work? do they even make one?

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[jkresh]

On some monitors DVI looks better, but if your monitor has no DVI input, then it won?t make a difference. DVI looks better because LCD's are digital and with VGA it goes from digital to analog to digital, while dvi stays all digital. But without a proper input, your monitor will still need to convert an analog signal to digital so using DVI on your graphics card with some kind of dvi/vga adapter will not give you any benefit and may even lower the quality.

 

[rbV5]

DVI looks better because LCD's are digital and with VGA it goes from digital to analog to digital, while dvi stays all digital.

Not true, there is no conversion needed. DVI-I connectors on video cards contain both analog and digital pins. The DVI>VGA adapter simply uses the analog pins on the DVI port. Signal degradation only occurs with a poor quality adapter, but the Radeon cards I use have no difference in IQ using either VGA or DVI>VGA adaptors even at high resolution/refresh rates.

In your case, its unnecissary to use any adapter.

 

[BigMoe]

ok thank you thats what i thought