Peterchance
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I am building a media centre using an Asus N4L-VM DH motherboard, Core 2 Duo T7200 Mobile processor and Gigabyte GeForece 7300GT graphics board. This is to work with my Pioneer PDP 427DX Plasma screen.
My hope is to view HD output either from PC files or from one of the new HD DVD drives when the price is sensible.
It's now more or less up and running but I have some questions about the best way to connect up the graphics card. The card has DVI, S-Video and VGA (Plus component I think). The plasma has 2 by HDMI and just about everything else except DVI.
I have had the screen running in S-Video, VGA, VGA from DVI via adapter and HDMI from DVI via adapter. The only clean display in PC mode is VGA, either direct or from DVI with adapter.
I was not surprised that S-Video wasn't so good, but expected a lot more from the HDMI connection. I found that the HDMI was overscanning and I was losing the top and bottom of the picture. In addition the PC desktop text was broken up.
Questions are:
1) Is the overscanning caused by the fact that the HDMI was derived from a DVI with an adpater?
2) Was it the overscanning that was causing the breakup of the text?
3) Would it be better if I had a graphics card with a real HDMI output?
4) Should I be using two outputs, i.e. VGA for the PC desktop and say HDMI/DVI for video? (The graphics card can output two signals simultaneously)
5) And finally, a silly question. If VGA is the best output why bother with a graphics card at all?
Peter
My hope is to view HD output either from PC files or from one of the new HD DVD drives when the price is sensible.
It's now more or less up and running but I have some questions about the best way to connect up the graphics card. The card has DVI, S-Video and VGA (Plus component I think). The plasma has 2 by HDMI and just about everything else except DVI.
I have had the screen running in S-Video, VGA, VGA from DVI via adapter and HDMI from DVI via adapter. The only clean display in PC mode is VGA, either direct or from DVI with adapter.
I was not surprised that S-Video wasn't so good, but expected a lot more from the HDMI connection. I found that the HDMI was overscanning and I was losing the top and bottom of the picture. In addition the PC desktop text was broken up.
Questions are:
1) Is the overscanning caused by the fact that the HDMI was derived from a DVI with an adpater?
2) Was it the overscanning that was causing the breakup of the text?
3) Would it be better if I had a graphics card with a real HDMI output?
4) Should I be using two outputs, i.e. VGA for the PC desktop and say HDMI/DVI for video? (The graphics card can output two signals simultaneously)
5) And finally, a silly question. If VGA is the best output why bother with a graphics card at all?
Peter