confused about cables...

[Spud2388 10+ year member]

I've been looking to buy some sort of cable to hook up my laptop to my lcd tv, but don't know what i need to get. I've read online that vga can only support to a certain resolution. with that being said, will a vga-to-vga cable be able to send a 1280x800 resolution? and which is better, s-video or vga?

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[Spud2388 10+ year member]

and, is there a difference between vga and svga? should i get one or the other?

 

[TrippleT 10+ year member]

svideo

 

[Spud2388 10+ year member]

now i thought vga would be better since it splits the signal into red, green, blue, vertical, and horizontal. where as s-video is compacted into one?

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

VGA supports up to 2048x1536 @ 60 Hz ...

S-Video supports up to 1024x768 @ 60 Hz ...

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

VGA supports up to 2048x1536 @ 60 Hz ...S-Video supports up to 1024x768 @ 60 Hz ...

INdeed.

VGA is the way to go, especially if you plan on going HD at all...

nG

 

[miker 5,000+ posts]

VGA, never did get it to work with my TV though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Nexium 10+ year member]

VGA, I sometimes hook it up my PC to my 32" LCD and I believe the resolution depends on computers GPU, but I'm not sure all I know is it looks nice

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

I have an old P4 2.6ghz with a TNT Vanta 64mb video card running a 24" lcd @ 1920x1200 using VGA. If a video card from 1999 can run that resolution on a 24" monitor with no problems I think your laptop will do fine.

Just trying to say....get a vga cable, it will work fine

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

I have an old P4 2.6ghz with a TNT Vanta 64mb video card running a 24" lcd @ 1920x1200 using VGA. If a video card from 1999 can run that resolution on a 24" monitor with no problems I think your laptop will do fine.

Just trying to say....get a vga cable, it will work fine

 

[BoxdGM 10+ year member]

if you have a good video card that does hdtv format out and has DVI out get a DVI to HDMI cable. supports up to 1080p, best way to go hands down ive tried it all. I have an older 7800gs AGP card and it works flawlessly with the Nvidia driver program.