DVI vs. VGA

[kchi55]

What are the advantages that DVI display have over VGA display? I recently purchased a DVI 22" LCD, an upgrade from my 17" VGA display, I'm not sure what I should be noticing though.

 

[esa193]

vga cant do high deff
dvi and do beyond 1080p
so if u had a vga monitor pluged into an adapter for a high deff video card
u lose all the highdeffonition
u plug it onto a dvi monitor u get 1080p pluse depending one your hardware

 

[freestyler105]

I'm pretty sure that's false esa, do you have any proof??

Anyway, the difference is that with DVI, the signal is "pure." Meaning, it doesn't have to be converted. DVI uses a digital signal, and VGA uses analog. Monitors only use digital signals, so for VGA it has to be converted to a digital signal for it to be displayed. This conversion results in a loss of quality.

There's a decent difference in quality, I think everything looks a bit sharper with DVI.

 

[lhuser]

He's talking HDMI there

DVI can push higher and more crisp resolutions compared to VGA.

 

[freestyler105]

Haha okay, I was confused for a second there.

 

[esa193]

i tough vga couldnt do highdeff?
guse not

 

[lhuser]

VGA and DVI can't go hi def. DVI beats VGA in quality of images and higher resolutions. High def is HDMI, high def composites and optical.

 

[Rudster8161]

all computer resolutions are "High Def" heck even 640x480 is still higher than a standard TV resolution. i guess people associate high def with tv's too much because when you watch a dvd on your computer that is HD enabled you watch it HD. i think people think that the TV is just bigger and the screen is LCD or Plasma to be HD

 

[freestyler105]

Regular DVDs are only 480p, which isn't really HD.

 

[superman22x]

True, but than you can use something like Nvidia Purvideo to make it look better. I have a question related to this, if I buy something that uses HDMI, can I se an adaptor to plug it into the DVI slot on my monitor? and will I loose quality doing that? just an idea.