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HDMI and my Computer (Read 250 times)

Jan 14^th, 2008 at 9:48pm

richardd43 Offline
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This is an FYI post and not a complaint....

I bought a new ATI card that is HDMI compatable. My monitor had HDMI connectors.

Armed with that information I bought a DVI to HDMI cable and connected my monitor.

Everything looked great until I decided to play a game....

My max resolution is now 1900x1080 instead of 1900x1200.

Had I given HDMI an ounce of thought I would have realized this and never bought the cable. I have no HD player on my computer so there was no compelling reason to buy the cable other than the fact that I wanted it.

oops... My wife just said I could not buy a HD/Blu-Ray player and a bunch of movies to justify the $30 I spent on the cable... sigh

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Reply #1 - Jan 15^th, 2008 at 12:08am

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For what it is worth, HDMI is the best quality signal you can send to a display, unless you have a double rate digital video output/cable, which is what the other port/cable you have is designed for. There is sound processing through HDMI too which is good, if you have speaker outputs from the monitor, otherwise HDMI is as about as useless as boobs on a bull

Its a TV thing more than a computer monitor need. Since the video card will send hi-def through the digital cable, it’s only needed if you are sending the computer signal to a TV or other device that usually do not have DVI but today even most TV's have that too.

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Reply #2 - Jan 15^th, 2008 at 12:29am

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Well, the cable was a frivolous buy at its best.

Just thought I would post the info to maybe keep someone else from making the same mistake.

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Reply #3 - Jan 15^th, 2008 at 9:21am

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

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Reply #4 - Jan 15^th, 2008 at 12:54pm

richardd43 Offline
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Quote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

LOL... Many times I have used the same addys to try and explain DVI and HDMI.

My point of starting the thread was the max resolution allowed once I hooked the HDMI cable up. 1900 x 1080 is not the ideal resolution I want to run my sim or my games at.

Picture quality is great and everyday computing is fine with the cable. As far as sound goes, if my monitor had speakers I would not want to use them.

I am on my way to buy another DVI cable and will post a picture showing the difference.

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Reply #5 - Jan 15^th, 2008 at 12:57pm

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freedomhays wrote on Jan 15^th, 2008 at 9:21am:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

As long as the DVI cable meets the the double data rate spec, it will do hi def just as good as HDMI and better than composite.

as richard says he was just posting about the limits on the ATi card port for HDMI and how that 'mistake' could not get him the bluray setup Grin

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