D-Sub Vs DVI-D

Ice Tea said:
Any reason not to buy a LCD that still uses a D-Sub connector ?
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do you mean one that only has a VGA connection and not a DVI? this is from the FAQ and may help:

Q. Does DVI Make A Difference?

A. This can depend a lot of the monitor in question. DVI offers a pure digital end to end connection between the graphics card and the monitor. VGA on the other hand has to convert the signal to analogue. In theory, digital connections should therefore offer a superior picture quality and a sharper image. In practice, this can depend on the model in question. There are a number of sharpening algorithms utlised for modern VGA interfaces which vary in the quality of the analogue/digital conversion. Some modern screens have such good analogue connections that it is very hard, or even impossible, to tell the difference between VGA and DVI.

Typically screens which don't have DVI connections offer very good quality VGA connections. Perhaps manufacturers spent more time and effort perfecting these, knowing it was all they could offer the user. On the other hand, maybe manufacturers who offer both connections don't spend as much time or money making the VGA as good as it could be, since they assume users will always use DVI anyway. This seems logical, and i practice there is a host of screens which show this trend.

If you can use DVI, then you should, since it will offer the sharpest image available for the screen. If you are limited to VGA only, I'd suggest finding some user opinions or reviews about the PQ using this intercace.
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Baddass, am I right in thinking that there is no auto adjust feature when using DVI? I recently got a 226BW and just plugged in the VGA as that was what was being used previously, I auto adjusted it and its perfect. If I use the DVI is it likely that the picture will look worse without me adjusting it and using different colour profiles (i dont know which panel I have btw)
 
Defcon5 said:
Baddass, am I right in thinking that there is no auto adjust feature when using DVI? I recently got a 226BW and just plugged in the VGA as that was what was being used previously, I auto adjusted it and its perfect. If I use the DVI is it likely that the picture will look worse without me adjusting it and using different colour profiles (i dont know which panel I have btw)
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no, auto adjust is a feature of VGA connections which can help adjust the phase and pixel clock etc. It's a way to automatically tweak the operation of the analogue > digital conversion algorithm. As such, it's not actually needed on DVI since that is a pure digital end to end connection. It shouldn't impact colour profiles or anything like that, switching to DVI. It might give you a slightly crisper image though :)
 
Swapped them over, seems to be a bit brighter! It says brightness is not available for me to change, is that to do with DVI too
 
brightness is normally changeable through the OSD, but contrast is often not....if it's not there then you would need to just tweak the graphics card settings instead :)
 
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