My TV supports VGA, should I get the cable.

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#1 black_awpN1
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Is it that much of a differnce? My TV does 1080i, so is VGA gonna be better ?
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Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.
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Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Funkdaddy13

but if I plug in the cable, could I do 1080p?  

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[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.black_awpN1

but if I plug in the cable, could I do 1080p?

Show me the product page of your TV...
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[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Funkdaddy13

but if I plug in the cable, could I do 1080p?


Show me the product page of your TV...

 I hve the Model Number if thats what you mean. I unfortunately do not know how to put a link. 20PF5120

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It changes from TV to TV, on my TV component had a lot of jaggies and the VGA didn’t but the color and every thing else is really close. If you are running component and that looks good I would save the money, I already had the VGA so I could use my computer monitor then I got myself a 32 inch Samsung LCD.
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[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"][QUOTE="black_awpN1"]

[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.black_awpN1

but if I plug in the cable, could I do 1080p?


Show me the product page of your TV...

I hve the Model Number if thats what you mean. I unfortunately do not know how to put a link. 20PF5120

Which one is it? http://www.cnet.com/4244-5_1-0.html?query=20PF5120&tag=srch&target=nw
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[QUOTE="black_awpN1"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"][QUOTE="black_awpN1"]

[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Funkdaddy13

but if I plug in the cable, could I do 1080p?


Show me the product page of your TV...

I hve the Model Number if thats what you mean. I unfortunately do not know how to put a link. 20PF5120


Which one is it?
http://www.cnet.com/4244-5_1-0.html?query=20PF5120&tag=srch&target=nw

 

the 800x600 one. the second one  

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#9 lonsy02
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Same here my tv supports 1080i Im using the vga cables every time I set 1080i the tv postion its self in a weird way Im wondering if I should get the componet HD AV cable would it make my TV set 1080i ?
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[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"][QUOTE="black_awpN1"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"][QUOTE="black_awpN1"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.black_awpN1
but if I plug in the cable, could I do 1080p?

Show me the product page of your TV...

I hve the Model Number if thats what you mean. I unfortunately do not know how to put a link. 20PF5120

Which one is it?
http://www.cnet.com/4244-5_1-0.html?query=20PF5120&tag=srch&target=nw

the 800x600 one. the second one

It's not an really an HDTV... I suggest you stick with component and use 480p.
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Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.
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Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Funkdaddy13
Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran
You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot.. If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.
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[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Goldeneyemaster

Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

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[QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Goldeneyemaster

Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Actually I'm a very tech savy person and what you are saying is blatantly false. For a good number of the nice tv's on the market component looks better than vga. I've had a Sony Bravia 1080p and a Sharp aquos 1080p and the Sharp through component has the best picture of all, yes over VGA on the Bravia. Colors are far more vibrant and jaggies are very minimal on the Aquos using component. If you actually had done a little bit of reserach you'd know that many tv's experience washed out colors when using the vga cable with a 360. Next you're gonna try and tell me that HDMI will make a significant difference in picture quality.....

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[QUOTE="Goldeneyemaster"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Army_Veteran


Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

well i cant speak for everyone in this forum, but i must say the VGA are way better than component on my tv. My tv's spec's are the now expected 1366 X 768 , 1000:1 , 8ms, 16.7 million colrs. I bought  my tv last month. It has temp control in VGA mode. You can up the color alot through that option. IT is a  37" LCD. I would say for 26" and smaller, component are pretty much the best you'll get. for larger tv's, the VGA is a must.
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#16 Army_Veteran
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[QUOTE="Army_Veteran"]

[QUOTE="Goldeneyemaster"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.ROCK303


Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

well i cant speak for everyone in this forum, but i must say the VGA are way better than component on my tv. My tv's spec's are the now expected 1366 X 768 , 1000:1 , 8ms, 16.7 million colrs. I bought  my tv last month. It has temp control in VGA mode. You can up the color alot through that option. IT is a  37" LCD. I would say for 26" and smaller, component are pretty much the best you'll get. for larger tv's, the VGA is a must.

No I understand it is diffrent on some, older TV VGA looks better, and some newer ones componet looks better, they guy that was saying we did not knwo what we was talkig about, does not know this stuff. It all depends on your TV. Mine lookes washed out with VGA and better with componet. He is just an idoit,

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Probably not, it may not make a difference. How big is your HDTV?
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[QUOTE="Army_Veteran"]

[QUOTE="Goldeneyemaster"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.ROCK303


Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

well i cant speak for everyone in this forum, but i must say the VGA are way better than component on my tv. My tv's spec's are the now expected 1366 X 768 , 1000:1 , 8ms, 16.7 million colrs. I bought my tv last month. It has temp control in VGA mode. You can up the color alot through that option. IT is a 37" LCD. I would say for 26" and smaller, component are pretty much the best you'll get. for larger tv's, the VGA is a must.

VGA would look cleaner for you because you could use your tv's native reolution as opposed to 720p. Please don't say for larger tv's vga is a must because it's not true. Any 1080p tv will run in it's native resolution through component hence if component provides better colors, which in most cases it does, component actually becomes a better alternative.

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Probably not, it may not make a difference. How big is your HDTV?gatsbythepig

20"  

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[QUOTE="ROCK303"][QUOTE="Army_Veteran"]

[QUOTE="Goldeneyemaster"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Endgame_basic


Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

well i cant speak for everyone in this forum, but i must say the VGA are way better than component on my tv. My tv's spec's are the now expected 1366 X 768 , 1000:1 , 8ms, 16.7 million colrs. I bought my tv last month. It has temp control in VGA mode. You can up the color alot through that option. IT is a 37" LCD. I would say for 26" and smaller, component are pretty much the best you'll get. for larger tv's, the VGA is a must.

VGA would look cleaner for you because you could use your tv's native reolution as opposed to 720p. Please don't say for larger tv's vga is a must because it's not true. Any 1080p tv will run in it's native resolution through component hence if component provides better colors, which in most cases it does, component actually becomes a better alternative.

He's not at native resolution. It's impossible to hit 1366x768 (well easily anyway) - as most videocards that I've seen can only output horizontal and vertical resolutions that are multiples of 8. I believe the Xbox 360 is outputting 1360x768. If he has 1:1 mapping then that's a different situation - but that's not a feature we see on a lot of HDTVs.
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[QUOTE="Endgame_basic"][QUOTE="ROCK303"][QUOTE="Army_Veteran"]

[QUOTE="Goldeneyemaster"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.subrosian


Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

well i cant speak for everyone in this forum, but i must say the VGA are way better than component on my tv. My tv's spec's are the now expected 1366 X 768 , 1000:1 , 8ms, 16.7 million colrs. I bought my tv last month. It has temp control in VGA mode. You can up the color alot through that option. IT is a 37" LCD. I would say for 26" and smaller, component are pretty much the best you'll get. for larger tv's, the VGA is a must.

VGA would look cleaner for you because you could use your tv's native reolution as opposed to 720p. Please don't say for larger tv's vga is a must because it's not true. Any 1080p tv will run in it's native resolution through component hence if component provides better colors, which in most cases it does, component actually becomes a better alternative.



He's not at native resolution. It's impossible to hit 1366x768 (well easily anyway) - as most videocards that I've seen can only output horizontal and vertical resolutions that are multiples of 8. I believe the Xbox 360 is outputting 1360x768. If he has 1:1 mapping then that's a different situation - but that's not a feature we see on a lot of HDTVs.

Ummm, the amount of scaling that needs to be done to get from 1280x720 to 1366x768 is a lot more than what needs be done from 1360x768. Essentially NO vertical scaling must be done and only 6 pixels worth of horizontal scaling. It is for all practical purposes native resolution. 

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[QUOTE="Goldeneyemaster"][QUOTE="Funkdaddy13"]Nope... Not for 1080i or 720p... Only 1080p.Army_Veteran


Nope the picture looks like crap, washed out bad. I am taking mine back tomarrow.Army_Veteran


You guys are stupid. Please stop posting about something you obviously know NOTHING about. I am getting really frustrated with stupid people on Gamespot..

If your TV has decent VGA support, YOU WILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PICTURE QUALITY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE RUNNING IN 720p, YOU WILL STILL NOTICE AN INCREASE IN QUALITY.

Look here son, I know what i am talking about! I just purchased the cables yesterday and hooked them up. I played with all the settings, still looks like crap. So do not try to flam me, probably some pimply little tenage kid who does not knwo what he is talking about. Don't you have to go to bed and get ready for school, young buck?

I find it funny that you resort to making completely false assumptions and begin to personally attack me when you have nothing better to say. I find it even funnier that you call me a little teenager when your spelling and grammar is on par with most elementary school kids. I know for a FACT that VGA looks better than component on the majority of DLP TVs and most other TVs (with the exception of many LCDs). Just because you have a crappy TV and VGA looks bad doesn't mean it will be the same for everyone, so it is pretty dumb to go around telling everyone that "VGA SUX DON'T BUY IT!!11!" And to the next guy, just because it looks crappy on your LCDs, doesn't mean VGA sucks. On my DLP (and on many of my friends HDTVs), there is a significant boost in picture sharpness, without the colors being washed out. And I find your last comment amusing. "Next you are going to tell me that HDMI will make a significant difference in picture quality." Well the answer is most likely yes. A pure digital signal will almost always look better than a standard analog signal. Maybe YOU should do some research.
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#24 MstrHnky
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Is it that much of a differnce? My TV does 1080i, so is VGA gonna be better ?
black_awpN1

Please don't create two threads on the same topic when your first post on April 6th answered all your questions.

And your first post on April 6th was much more informative than on April 8th.

Someone feel free to correct me if the component cables can't do 1080p for games/movies.

Thanks.