[LAU] monitor shot, need advice for a new one

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 08:48:54 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
> "Loki Davison" <loki.davison at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> users of vga cables with an lcd should be shot.
>
> Only if your video card has poor-quality analogue output (which is the
> case for a lot of modern cards -- I've never seen an NVidia card that
> produces acceptable analogue output, for example). With my cheapie
> Radeon 9200, the analogue and digital outputs are indistinguishable
> when displayed on a 1600x1200 LCD, which is extremely handy for
> multihead.
>
> --
> Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>

Dave,
   This seems like overreaction on Loki's part to me. My son uses an
nice ($250) nvidia graphics agapter, VGA output, to drive him Samsung
flatscreen monitor. the picture is great.

   I'n sure staying digital is a better way to go, but it's by no
means required.

Cheers,
Mark



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