My dude, VGA is ANALOG it absolutely cannot run a LCD and make it look right, it is for CRTs
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Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 days agoVGA and DVI honestly were both killed off way too soon. Both will perfectly drive a 1080p 60fps display and honestly the only reason to use HDMI or Displayport with such a display is if that matches your graphics output
The biggest shame is that DVI didn’t take off with its dual monitor features or USB features. Seriously there was a DVI Dual Link with USB spec so you could legitimately use a single cable with screws to prevent accidental disconnects to connect your computer to all of your office peripherals, but instead we had to wait for Thunderbolt to recreate those features but worse and more likely to drop out
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 6 days ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The little people inside the LCD monitor can absolutely turn the electricity into numbers. I’ve seen them do it.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sorry, I didn’t mean it can’t be done, I did it plenty in the 90s/00s, I meant that the resulting image tends to be noticeably less sharp. But perhaps analog->digital converters got better?
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This is incorrect. Source: do it all the time for work.
baropithecus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
DVI – sure, but if you think 1080p over VGI looks perfect you should probably get your eyes checked.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 days ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if it varies by monitor but I’ve encountered plenty of monitors professionally where I could not tell the difference between the VGA or HDMI input, but I can absolutely tell when a user had one of the cheap adapters in the mix and generally make a point of trying to get those adapters out of production as much as possible because not only do they noticably fuck with the signal (most users don’t care but I can see it at least) but they also tend to fail and create unnecessary service calls
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We are still using VGA on current gen installations for the primary diagnosis on the most expensive patient monitoring system in the world. If there’s a second display it gets displayport. 1080p. Is still the max resolution.