VGA vs DVI

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stevedave

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I googled this and couldn't get a strait fact full answer. Some said no difference some said huge difference some said VGA doesn't do HD but none of them linked research, facts, comparisons or anything to back up what they had so say.

I just switched from DVI to VGA and after adjusting the monitor a little bit I don't notice a difference. I use my monitor for gaming, programming, and movie watching is there any difference doing these.
 
It depends on the monitor. VGA can look as good as DVI when adjusted properly and if there's no interference. Some monitors have crappy auto-adjust, and some monitors are prone to interference on the VGA port like ghosting or wavy lines. It's better to just use DVI to avoid that mess.
 
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my HDMI port might have crashed out on me when I tried to play BF2 and the 1024 resolution of the game didn't want to work with the 1920 resolution of the screen.

I was thinking about returning the monitor but I changed my mind when I plugged the VGA in and didn't notice a difference.
 
Personally I can't do VGA. I have seen on various monitors that DVI looked much nicer.
 
Another thing I forgot to mention is on some monitors, the colors are different on VGA, so the colors might appear more washed out.
 
yeah the colors, clarity, and screen position were all a little out of wack but some slight adjustments fixed that.

Getting same same answers here as what was on google. I guess there is no real answerer beyond what you can see.

Some people said VGA can't do HD but I thought HD was just 1080P which is just 1920x1080. Am I wrong is there more to HD than screen resolution?
 
VGA can handle any resolution DVI can, but again, it depends on whether or not the monitor supports it. Most monitors will support 720p over VGA just fine. Some have trouble with 1080p over VGA, but it's still possible on many monitors. 1080i is the most problematic since that's interlaced and many monitors don't support interlaced signals.
 
I hooked up component cables up to it and the max they would run at was 1080i and man that looked like crap nothing I did helped either aside from turning it black and white.
 
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