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Best video connector for monitor?

pickarooney · 2010-02-07 11:47:15

My graphics card has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. I've always used the VGA as, simply put I didn't have a DVI cable and found nothing wrong with the picture quality. I'm in the market for a new monitor and one of the models I'm interested in has no DVI connection, but has HDMI. The other one has a USB video connection, which…

07-02-2010 11:47am

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My graphics card has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. I've always used the VGA as, simply put I didn't have a DVI cable and found nothing wrong with the picture quality. I'm in the market for a new monitor and one of the models I'm interested in has no DVI connection, but has HDMI. The other one has a USB video connection, which I found rather odd.

What video connector do you use, and why?

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#2 07-02-2010 12:38pm

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I use VGA because that is what my monitor uses.

In the grand scheme of things, VGA vs DVI vs HDMI on a PC monitor makes little difference.

Assuming the native resolution of the monitor = one "compatible" with HDMI, i.e. the HDMI interface doesn't perform any scaling on the input, then it should give you great image quality.

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