Why vga looks better than hdmi

Getting a better VGA cable isn't going to help. The digital display will be crisper. NEC's top line of monitors have a very large price premium to cover using top quality parts everywhere. Even knowing one was on analog I couldn't see any quality difference between the two. For most consumer grade monitors the difference is much more visible. I have immediately noticed cases where 1 of 2 dell x monitors was analog.

DanNeely, you may have a good point, there. Some of these displays are beautiful, actually, but when you feed two identical ones side by side with VGA and digital, the difference is hard to miss. Unplug the digital one, and the VGA display looks perfectly fine all by itself. The analog lines are in those cables to let you use a DVI to VGA adapter and feed an analog port from a video card that puts an analog signal out the same port as the digital signal Another thing you may notice is that the VGA connection will look much better with cleartype turned off.

Show 11 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Martin F 1 1 silver badge 11 11 bronze badges. Sarima Sarima 2 2 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. How good are the adapters?

Are those good enough? Just get whichever one works for the hardware you have, and you can buy simple passive adapters cheap if you need to. If you have USB 3. USB 2. The last solution is absolutely brilliant : — gronostaj. Add a comment.

Matthias Matthias 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. I see. It's really weird though, I don't think I had ever run into a monitor that I couldn't get to display nicely.

Granted, I haven't worked with hundreds of them, but a least a dozen or so, with different workstations. It's also a little strange that the text on my external monitor at work looks decent enough, with the same laptop, although this monitor uses a lower resolution, x — silverCORE. The VGA connected one was ever so slightly fuzzy by comparison, but I only noticed because they were side-by-side. Cable quality definitely contributes. Daniel B Daniel B Craig Yeah, that depends a lot on the graphics card and the display.

High quality CRT's did do a nice job of smoothing those pixels. Hi Daniel. It is pretty weird. My monitors do have an Auto button, but when I click it it does something else, not an auto adjustment. The monitors also came with a program that can do some monitor configurations on-screen vs physically pushing the buttons, but the Auto seems to be unavailable for some reason.

Thanks for the "Auto" tip, I activated this and the monitor went from completely intolerable to at least bearable! Show 1 more comment. I went to the phasing web page and it flickers while I move the browser window. So you have a completely different problem from this question? Got it. Ask your own question. When I went to that link, it was dancing and shimmering all over the place. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.

Previous Next Sort by votes. Feb 18, 23 0 10, 0. I'd love to know what an extremely old video technology looks so much better than a new one? Jun 4, 5 0 18, 4. Mar 16, 7, 30 39, 1, You're doing something a little bit wrong. USAFRet :. Jan 11, 0 19, Could be your video card needs some settings adjusted. Also the tv doesn't support the newer HDMI 2. Just a head up. Playing video from the same source, comparing the two different inputs?

I'd guess there is some setting not quite right. HDMI should not be pixelated, etc, if the source video is not crap. AM2A Distinguished. Oct 29, 13 0 18, 2. TVs often assume VGA is coming from a computer and don't mess with the image.

With HDMI no such assumption is made, and it's likely stretching the image and applying other effects. AM2A :. Jun 14, 4, 3 14, 1, Somewhere also tells me, using an HD set to watch SD program make it look worse at certain times VGA is very old. The technology was introduced in HDMI is now the new standard. When it comes to ports, VGA uses a pin connector, usually marked with a blue.

Typically, the cable is plugged in and then you turn the two screws to fasten the cable to the connector. Most PCs and TVs still have these ports. No screws needed here, the cable usually fits perfectly in place. While VGA can support pretty high resolutions, there are many factors that can cause signal corruption or loss. And other forms of interference. But, if all you want is p, then a VGA cable can do the trick. HDMI, on the other hand, can support a wide range of resolutions, without the risks of signal interference or loss.

It also carries over audio, and newer versions can carry over the internet too.