On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:53:03AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:45:46PM -0800, Villalovos, John L wrote: > > Sorry if this is too far off topic. > > > > I am trying to build a MythTV setup using a PVR-350 and an HD-3000. > > > > This will be hooked up to a Sony KD34XBR960 34" HDTV Direct View CRT. > > > > The Sony has a HDMI input on it. > > > > So I was wondering if getting a card with DVI output would be the best > > way to hook up to the HDTV? > > I've used this: > > http://www.gefen.com/kvm/cables/dvi2hdmi.jsp > > Works well, but I found that the TV doesn't auto-adjust its > brightness/contrast like pretty much all analog TVs do, so we wound up > going for a VGA-to-component converter. > > More on the HDMI cable here: http://changelog.complete.org/node/115
Well, here's an odd failure story. I picked up a cable -- perhaps it was too cheap, but the sense I get with HDMI and cheap cables is that as a digital standard it either works or it doesn't. So I plugged it into my TV and ran at 720p, same modeline I was driving the (Mitsubishi) TV at with the VGA port it has on the back. I was excited, now I would be going all digital! And the image sucked! It wasn't as overscanned, which is nice, but it was noticeably worse in computer display mode (which shows resolution the best). In video it wasn't as noticeable a difference, but it wasn't better, which was the whole goal. So I'm back to analog RGB VGA. Good thing the cable was cheap. But I am at a loss to figure out why this would be. Maybe some more precise modeline games will be tried later with xvidtune.
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