is dvi important for 19" lcds?

[spazo]

I remember seeing somewhere that DVI is not really an issue until you get into the 20" range. Is this true?

 

[Anubis08]

No. DVI Gives you much better quality with any monitor. Some people think it is okay without DVI on smaller monitors but what is the point of getting an LCD without it. It is like buying a Porsche body and putting a Mini's engine in it. There is no point as CRTs would be way better and cost a lot less without DVI. With it the cost is still there but the performance is up. That is my opinion.

 

[halfadder]

DVI is very important once you hit 1280x1024 and above.

A good VGA LCD can do 1024x768 with good quality as the analog frequencies aren't that high (provided you have a good gfx card with clean analog VGA out). But once you hit 1280x1024 you're going to want DVI. The side by side quality comparison shows a huge difference.

 

[Keyvan]

i would recommend it,
but i must say that once as an experiment i tried connecting the benq t903(analog only) and the benq t904(dvi) to a computer at work using a geforce 5200 that had dvi and vga out. i wanted to do a side by side comparison, but i couldn't see really see a difference.