DVI or HDMI?

monkeyshead · 22 Jan 2009 at 11:11

Hi Guys

Is there any advantage connecting my LCD TV/Monitor to my PC via HDMI or is DVI just as good?

Monitor: Samsung T260HD 26"
Card: Asus 4850

Thanking you
Monk

mdjmcnally · 22 Jan 2009 at 11:22

Only advantage would be if sending out over the HDMI as well.

If you are using different speakers then no.

J.B · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:54

Unless your graphics card puts out sound via HDMI as well as video there is no point. DVI and HDMI are same apart from HDMI can carry sound.

Redgie · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:34

Didn't know this, was thinking about upgrading due to my 8800GTX not having a HDMI out, thanks for the info

Tinden · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:25

J.B said:
Unless your graphics card puts out sound via HDMI as well as video there is no point. DVI and HDMI are same apart from HDMI can carry sound.

Wot he said. Just buy the monitor you want.

SteveS · 23 Jan 2009 at 11:37

the ati 4870 has hdmi, but dont know if it does sound... anyone know?

PistolPete · 23 Jan 2009 at 13:04

Not sure about the 4870, but I have the 4850 which has an ATI HDMI Audio driver installed. Although I'm making an assumption, I assume that it means it does sound and I would also assume the 4870 would be the same

PaulyD · 23 Jan 2009 at 13:06

The 4870 can do sound over HDMI

Benimaru · 23 Jan 2009 at 13:10

Is it really even worth it getting sound from the gfx card? I've always assumed that even the onboard sound cards from the motherboard would still perform better.

Edward01 · 23 Jan 2009 at 13:23

^^ isn't the point that it does direct sound pass through so you can plug the HDMI into your amp and that will decode the sound?

I might be thinking of something else entirely tho :s

Meaker · 23 Jan 2009 at 14:03

Very little difference between the two. Use one or the other or get a converter if you cant choose, you wont notice any difference.

E1mo · 23 Jan 2009 at 14:59

For MOST consumer level applications, essentially the HDMI video standard is almost identical to DVI. However, HDMI connections support content encryption and this may be required by the movie studios in the future to view HD movies.

As other posters have mentioned HDMI can also carry audio signals, but the main advantage of this is lossless standards like Dolby True-HD, I haven't seen any graphics cards that do pass-through of this standard, thus HDMI-Audio on the PC is only as good as SPDIF output.