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

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jul 13 2008 - 15:48:54 EEST

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Adam Sampson <ats@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> "Loki Davison" <loki.davison@email-addr-hidden> 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@email-addr-hidden> <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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