HDMI Monitor cable hookup
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 by jpmurph1 | Discussion: Personal Computing
I have a HP w2207h 22" widescreen HDMI Monitor, and a Visiontek 4850HD video card, my present cable hookup is this: on the video card i have a DVI to HDMI adapter, then a HDMI Cable to the monitor. my question is would i get better results if i just used a DVI cable instead of adapting to HDMI?? or would my results just be the same? or would i notice improvement, (even though the graphics on the screen right now are second to none, thanks for any help and thoughts
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:55 PM
For computers DVI and HDMI are identical for video signals. HDMI just adds in the ability to do sound over the same cable.
A new cable would not gain you any visual quality.
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:56 PM
Great, thanks very much guys,i appreciate the help and info
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 7, 2009 9:02 PM
Yeah, HDMI is better than S-video and composite cables for Television sets, but with the computer screen you set the resolution.
Reply #5 Friday, January 9, 2009 9:20 AM
Resolution have nothing to do with signal quality... digital is digital, 1's and 0's ....the other are analog signals like VGA,Component(YPbPr),Full Scart(21pins RGB),S-video,Composite,RF(Pretty much quality in that order). Digital is far better than analog in giving the correct signal and very resistant to interference.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:55 PM
A single-type cable would be cheaper, but no different. Aside from HDMI optionally carrying audio, it's the exact same thing as DVI, just a different connector.