Samusung LCD TV with VGA, DVI or HDMI?

Hi,

I would like to hear your oppinion about these three possibilities. But please, replay only if you have practical experience, not the theory. I intend to use the videocontroller on the mother board and only go for DVI/HDMI if there is a significant dieference in comparison to VGA.

What videocard would you suggest to buy? Should it be with DVI or with HDMI interface (the TV has component (analogue), VGA and HDMI interfaces).

Tia

 

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From experience helping people out I will generally advice to stear away from Samsung for any PC use.

-k

 

I've got a Samsung TV (LE-32R41B)connected to my HTPC.

I use a ATi Radeon 9600 Pro for the connection and I am using the VGA port on the TV.

This is because I can get pixel perfect mapping this way (1360x768, I believe 6 pixels disappear in width this way), using the hdmi-port is annoying because of the amount of overscan the TV has.
The picture is "better" due to all filters but if you want to be able control the output (brightness, gamma and such) you need to use the VGA with a mode that eliminated the dnie filter.

I think this results in the best picture (but you still need to use 60Hz) but still not optimized for PAL.

 

Do you mean that your Samsung won't sync to 1360x768 at 50Hz or that your graphics card won't generate that mode?

Have you tried using powerstrip to add the mode/refresh@50hz ?

BigJ.

 

The TV won't do 50Hz Reliably.
I've tried that but have always fallen back to 60Hz.

I've also used powerstrip to fumble around to get a good solution with the HDMI port but gave up.

 

I'm quite pleased with My Samsung 32" - I use VGA connector from a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600.