> Subject: Re: [PCI] video pci card? > From: Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 05:25 PM, David Elmo wrote: > >> Just another little thing. This business of "the quality", I am happy if the >> image is sharp and like what I get on my onboard vram or twin turbos to be >> perfectly frank! Scrolling speed is terrible on my twin turbos but I expect >> that to improve with almost any other card! As for quality, any further >> explanation? I don't play games, I make websites, do printing layouts in >> Illustrator and use Photoshop and Fireworks a lot, and read a lot of text >> (this is important), amuse myself seeing short film clips and flash and stuff >> people send but beyond that I am not too fussed. I don't want fancy. So maybe >> this Voodoo 3 3000 might do me for now for the 7600 if I can get one. >> > I don't use a flat screen, so I can not give a first hand account, but here is > the best I can do from heresay and conjecture and what I have read. > > When you use a VGA connection, the video card converts the digital signal from > the computer into an analog signal that your CRT monitor can display. When you > use a LCD, what happens is that you convert the digital signal from the > computer to an analog signal, which your LCD then converts back into a digital > signal to drive the pixels. Going through 2 conversions (digital to analog and > back again) MAY cause some loss of video information, including colors. You > may also lose some of the color gamut by going through the 2 conversions. > > As to the sharpness, as long as you use the LCD at the manufacturer > recommended resolution, it will be sharp. it is when you go to a higher or > lower resolution then the native resolution of the LCD that you lose > sharpness. > > HTH Len
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