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Best way to connect LCD TV to graphics card?

rocketman

rocketman

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Hi everyone. I've just ordered myself my first HD LCD tv with pc input, and I'm wondering what way is the best to connect it to my system. Card is geforce 7900 GS. Will want to use it mainly for viewing HD video I've got stored on hard drive. I have the DVI-VGA and HDTV dongles that came with it. I'm completely new to this, so any suggestions of cables etc to buy as well would be handy. Thanks in advance. :)
 
Jay123 said:
Seems as the tv already comes with Dvi input
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Does it? The PC input usually refers to a 15pin dsub VGA analogue input. Can't see any reference to DVI, in fact that would be quite unusual now. A few years back, sure. To the OP does it have DVI?

BTW, the HDMI input is going to have trouble displaying the sets native resolution 1366 x 768. The VGA input may well give a better picture set to 1:1
 
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fornowagain said:
Does it? The PC input usually refers to a 15pin dsub VGA input. Can see any reference to DVI, in fact that would be quite unusal now. A few years back, sure. To the OP does it have DVI?
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Don't know. Haven't received tv yet. I quoted the connection from a manual I downloaded off panasonic website. It states it has a D-sub 15-pin connector signal. Compared picture from manual to pic Jay123 posted and they're different. I think its a DVI-VGA cable I'll need.
 
fornowagain said:
Does it? The PC input usually refers to a 15pin dsub VGA analogue input. Can't see any reference to DVI, in fact that would be quite unusual now. A few years back, sure. To the OP does it have DVI?

BTW, the HDMI input is going to have trouble displaying the sets native resolution 1366 x 768. The VGA input may well give a better picture set to 1:1
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running a dvi to hdmi on my 32" lg with no issues whatsoever displaying the native res
 
rocketman said:
Don't know. Haven't received tv yet. I quoted the connection from a manual I downloaded off panasonic website. It states it has a D-sub 15-pin connector signal. Compared picture from manual to pic Jay123 posted and they're different. I think its a DVI-VGA cable I'll need.
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Give me the manual link, I'll check it for you. But I had similar issues with several HDTV, one of them the HDMI gave the best picture but the native res was 1280x720. Its best to use the native res so, yeah VGA might be better. I'd try both, a DVI to HDMI can be had for a few quid.
 
Massive Attack said:
running a dvi to hdmi on my 32" lg with no issues whatsoever displaying the native res
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It depends on the set, I have a 32" that won't accept anything but the 720/1080 variants. I also had a 52" DLP that took pretty much anything over HDMI. Go figure. Natives the best bet, no matter how you get there.

Nice little app here, give a report once you have a connection of every resolution supported by the set, and should say which is preferred. To avoid any scaling.

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/moninfo.shtm
 
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