Re: dvi vs vga etc and monitors.....

2008-05-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:17:36PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: If you use a vga cable to drive e.g. an LCD TV or a LCD monitor would you expect to get better results i.e. better resolved small font size text using the dvi cable instead? Using a DVI cable has the advantages: Image

Re: dvi vs vga etc and monitors.....

2008-05-28 Thread Stephen Olander-Waters
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 13:22 +1000, simon wise wrote: On 28 May 2008, at 8:17 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Is it also true that if you switched it for a 50 meter DVI cable then everything would be perfect and the signal degradation would vanish? for long runs VGA is better, DVI

Re: dvi vs vga etc and monitors.....

2008-05-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Stephen Olander-Waters wrote: I cannot speak from experience, but the Wikipedia page says: --- The maximum length of DVI cables is not included in the specification since it is dependent on bandwidth requirements (the resolution of the image being

dvi vs vga etc and monitors.....

2008-05-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear folks, If you use a vga cable to drive e.g. an LCD TV or a LCD monitor would you expect to get better results i.e. better resolved small font size text using the dvi cable instead? Or is that just an old fairy tale? Is it really true that if you had a very long 50 meter vga cable the

Re: dvi vs vga etc and monitors.....

2008-05-27 Thread simon wise
On 28 May 2008, at 8:17 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Is it really true that if you had a very long 50 meter vga cable the signal would degrade and you would lousy graphics resolution in the monitor relative to a short 2 meter vga lead between computer and monitor? The quality of the