Ah. Understand now. Sorry for the confusion. Imagine people's surprise when they want to play HD movies on their top-end PC, only to be told they 1) must install vista 2) have to buy a new monitor that is HDCP compliant and 3) must buy a new video card that supports HDCP. And they wonder why HD movies haven't taken off yet.
And in total agreement with the Vista issue. One of the reasons people are having trouble with it and it gobbles so many resources is that they had to do a total re-write of the entire A/V subsystem. This rewrite was to comply with the ever increasing DRM and content protection measures to placate the Hollywood crowd. They have billed DX10 as the "bestest thing EVER!!!" but so far gamers are not seeing it. From what I have heard Crysis looks just as good under XP as under Vista and runs 10-15% faster on XP. On Dec 13, 2007 8:13 PM, James Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. If you read the last paragraph of my original post, I said I DID NOT > notice a difference between DVI->HDMI and analog VGA. In previous posts I > mentioned that I was initially connected via the VGA input of the TV from > the VGA output of the computer. Sorry I forgot to reiterate that fact in > this post. > > So, to reiterate all the pertinent details, I hope :) > > Initally I connected the computer to the HDTV via VGA analog cable: VGA out > to VGA in, for a screen size of 1920x1080. Today, I hooked up the DVI-I > output of the computer to the HDMI input of the HDTV, something the manuals > says is N/A and I read many posts on the internet of people complaining that > they could not perform this task. It worked with no problem at 1920x1080. My > computer onboard video will do 1920x1080 output to both the VGA and DVI-I > ports. The HDTV is advertised as running 1080p for all inputs. > > So, VGA analog to VGA analog will do 1920x1080. > DVI-I to HDMI will do 1920x1080. > No down-rezzing occurring. > > I am really NOT able to detect a difference, although I can't do an actual > side-by-side comparison. > > Thanks for the info on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. No hardware (or budget) for these > at the moment and if they require VISTA, I'll settle for a desktop player > when the time comes and forgo VISTA DRM (Damn Ridiculous Measures)! > > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Weeden > > > Wait - you noticed a difference in quality between HDMI and DVI-D? > > > Something we totally forgot to mention (sorry) was that in order to > > have Blu-Ray or HD-DVD output show up your PC video card must support > > HDCP and I believe you must have Vista as well (but I'm not 100% > > positive on that). > > > > On Dec 13, 2007 5:06 PM, James Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > That said, I did not notice a difference in quality of the > > display, but it > > > does allow several computers to be connected to the HDTV at > > one time. > > > Background: the HDTV is a Westinghouse TX-42F430S. The computer uses > > > on-board nVidia GeForce 6150 video which supports both a > > VGA and DVI-I > > > sockets. > > > > > > FYI > > > > > > > > > Jim Maki > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Brian Weeden
