dvi vs vga etc and monitors.....

[Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com>]

Dear folks,

If you use a vga cable to drive e.g. an LCD TV or a LCD monitor would you expect to get better results i.e. better resolved small font size text using the dvi cable instead?

Or is that just an old fairy tale?

Is it really true that if you had a very long 50 meter vga cable the signal would degrade and you would lousy graphics resolution in the monitor relative to a short 2 meter vga lead between computer and monitor?

Is it also true that if you switched it for a 50 meter DVI cable then everything would be perfect and the signal degradation would vanish?

Also if I bought dvi dual link cable and a fancy 2650 x 1600 30 inch monitor could X plus an upmarket nvidia card drive the monitor at its full resolution?

Apparently you need a dvi dual link cable if you go beyond a certain resolution because neither the vga nor dvi single link can cope with it.

If it is the case that dvi can't carry sound, can HDMI?

Comments appreciated,

Regards

MF

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