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time to throw away those $1000 projectors from our 50 classrooms... oh wai-
~Merry Christmas :)
Intel and AMD sign death warrant for VGA port
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New #52
I have no idea what's mandated or really how it works but I run a cheap gold connections HDMI cable (Amazon) from my laptop to a 32" Vizio HDTV and the picture is exceptional.
The only think I can think of is to make sure you make sure the display settings are set to the Bravia's native resolution and not those of your PC monitor.
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New #53
Oh yes, Im not disputing that. It sounds great when I have my Onkyo connected through toslink to my soundcard. (I prefer using spdif for so Im using that instead now)xarden- Concerning Optical Toslink I recently got a new $35.05 65 strand Glass Conductor Optical Digital Toslink to connect my Sony Receiver to my computer's sound card and it sounds ever so much better than the $80 molded plastic conductor Toslink that I used in the past.
~Maxx~
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What I meant, was when I used HDMI, I basically couldnt use my sound card. The audio was going through the hdmi cable to the TV instead. Then from the TV to the amplifier. It was the conversions there that caused the latency.
I was later told all I needed to do was disable the audio over hdmi function?
It doesnt matter now, the (ex)gf moved out and took the tv.
@jelyman,
Actually, industrial standards are to use RS232 serial at 9200(0) baud, because it is reliable over longer distances than you can run a USB cable for.
In places like steel mills and factories, and our dyno workshop, where theres a lot of EMI's, heat, vibrations, noise, there is a lot of infrastructure build on this because... well it is reliable.
These places dont care for P4's or i7's. They care for what does the job for what the job requires. A dummy terminal with a 486 is all thats needed to retract an anchor and move a crane, and all displayed on a green and black CGA crt screen.
But I agree with you from a consumer, or hightech industry point of view.
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New #54
The traditional thought was that Digital coax is better than Optical Toslink because it only had a 6 Mhz bandwidth and so I was using S/PDIF over a $225 Audioquest .9999 fine silver dual conductor Digital coax cable until I discovered Glass conductor Optical Toslink...
This is not a common low bandwidth plastic conductor Toslink this Glass Toslink has a 65 strand Glass Fiber conductor Toslink that sells for only $35.
~Maxx~
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New #56
After finding out that the hard way that HDMI is mandated to 720 and 1080 lines of resolution and could not produce even a decent picture on my 768 line Bravia I took the Belkin Pure AV HDMI wire which has silver soldered connections and 4 layers of shielding, anti-resonance sheathing and dual ferrite RFI filtering in addition to its gold plated terminations which are as wide as a US quarter and used it to replace the flimsy poorly shielded HDMI wire that had been between the HD cable box and the 50" Sony HDTV in the living room and it has never looked so good in fact it now looks spectacular in comparison to the way it looked using the former poorly built wire by comparison !
~Maxx~
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New #57
This bit concerns me greatly, never mind the VGA phase-out itself!
I'm one of many people who simply cannot and will never be able to see man-made 3D picture. I was born with a condition known as "Strabismus" and which, because surgical treatment failed to correct the problem with discrepancies in visual input from both eyes, developed into "Ambylopia" and which basically means that part of my visual cortex (dealing in "depth perception") never developed, atrophied and for all intensive purposes, died.
The reason I cannot see in man-made 3D is because my depth-perception (one in the same which is exploited to create the 3D effect and nothing else) just isn't there anymore. The last time I was able to see 3D before that part of my brain "died" was in the fall of 1998 and it is never coming back. There is simply no fix known to man or medicine that will cure this ailment and there damn well likely never will be.
So, now I am wondering what is going to happen with people like me, who (again) cannot and will never be able to see in 3D, when 3D-viewing becomes the new standard for everything - TV, movies, games, and even computing altogether. Are we just going to be swept under the rug when they decide 2D has to die out, too???
Sorry to take this a bit off-topic, but... I think you can see my point and its relevance to this discussion. If THIS is truly the (sole) reason they are deciding to "phase out" VGA and possibly other interface connections, or else entire technologies of yesterday and the present, for those of the future (3D)... it doesn't look good for people like me. Not good at all.
Having said that, and to get back on-topic, I see absolutely no difference in picture quality between VGA and HDMI on my PCs and external monitors. None at all. The only portion of my vision which is "impaired" is that which deals purely on "depth-perception", again as I have said, and which has no forbearance between my abilities to distinguish between VGA and HDMI picture-quality and because my devices are strictly 2D, 3D has nothing to do with them at all.
So what is the real advantage of removing a less expensive connection interface in favor of more expensive ones, which claim to be "better"? Well I just answered that in the question itself...
MONEY!!!
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New #58
I'm really sorry to hear that. 8 out of 10 times, you're not missing anything. For me, 3D is tough as my eyes don't do well with contacts and the mix between my near-sightedness and my astigmatism on both axes in both eyes, 3D is a chore.
I'm one of many people who simply cannot and will never be able to see man-made 3D picture. I was born with a condition known as "Strabismus" and which, because surgical treatment failed to correct the problem with discrepancies in visual input from both eyes, developed into "Ambylopia" and which basically means that part of my visual cortex (dealing in "depth perception") never developed, atrophied and for all intensive purposes, died.
The reason I cannot see in man-made 3D is because my depth-perception (one in the same which is exploited to create the 3D effect and nothing else) just isn't there anymore. The last time I was able to see 3D before that part of my brain "died" was in the fall of 1998 and it is never coming back. There is simply no fix known to man or medicine that will cure this ailment and there damn well likely never will be.
So, now I am wondering what is going to happen with people like me, who (again) cannot and will never be able to see in 3D, when 3D-viewing becomes the new standard for everything - TV, movies, games, and even computing altogether. Are we just going to be swept under the rug when they decide 2D has to die out, too???
And I severely doubt it will become standard. It'll be an option, I'm sure, but not everything will benefit from 3D: the news, game shows, documentaries, as examples.
I saw Jackass in 3D and while it was "cool", it was un-necessary.
I really wouldn't worry about it.
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