change analog to digital

Mike,

There is no need to convert a signal from analog to digital, so that is not something you need to worry about.

If you haven't already, I would try playing around with the settings built into the LCD monitor (the ones you get when pressing the menu button) to see if you can make the picture any better.

Also, if you think you video drivers are outdated, you'll want to download drivers for your video card (not the actual monitor). Depending on your setup, the video card could be built into the motherboard, in which case you would need to check the website of your PC's manufacturer for the latest updates.

good luck!

thank you for your answers. I don't have the remote to get into the menu, I am getting it soon. I have updated my nvidea card driver, I am getting a 128 Mb agp soon, I can only set 800x600 and 60 Mz rate with the lcd or else bad stuff.

thank you so much.

Mike

You might want to check your resolution setting. LCD monitors display best at their native resolution, and tend to get a little blurry resolutions other than native. If you do not wish to use your native resolution for some reason you can choose a multiple of your native resolution I.E if your native resolution is 1600by1200 800by600 will work.

Good answer, I rated it as such too.

It would appear that the Monitor replaced the old CRT monitor and no proper setup was made.

To the original Blogger, please do the following:-

1) read the manual that came with the monitor

2) If you have digital output on your video card and your new monitor has digital in, then buy the digital cable. But check first!!

Click on this link for more infos and pictures:-

DVI Connector

3) Follow Yroadrunner's advice on the resolution.

Comparing with CRT, LCD is light and less distortion, but it hardly has more benefit than CRT. From colour, brightness , contract to response speed. its not only a simple issue of setting its resolution.

The top thread title is wrong. PC output is digital rather than analog. most of modern display card has analog output interface, and can be connected to analog sets like TV set etc.

they can be IRGB or composition signal or even RF signal.

From D to A, there is some signal loss. so that remember analog display set can never compare with digital display set.

we can speak to o much about it.

I think he would make clear, what is his display card, its output and lcd input.

analog monitor has different usage when it compares with digital monitor.

most of tv making has analog monitor rather than digital.(unless he use digital tv making)

You neglected to mention the following differences of CRTs to LCD etc:-

1) power usage

2) Heat generated

3) High voltages inside, which can cause buzzing when older and dust and dirt "attraction" inside the case, which can lead to early life failures.

5) size differences

About the only real plus for a large CRT is its ability to display fast movement with no blurring, really only important for a "Gamer", which I am not!! and also that "Black" is Black, whereas on an LCD Black is really grey only.....But LCDs are getting better in these areas.

When OLED displays are available in reasonable sizes, prices and numbers, then those with LCDs will eat their hearts out!!! Black will be Black and blurring a thing of the past.....my next TV will be OLED!

Andy, you go away so far. besides your said, there are still many differences between them. for example, they have different lighting mechanism ... it s out of topic. what we are talking about is D and A. from this spot, they are not difference.

lcd has now more fast response speed up to less than 1ms and can display fast movement image. Gamer is another concept, which is correct relation between object and image.

gray degree can be 8 or 12bits for more details. the more bits we use the more detail of object the monitor can display. more bits converter generally use for industry not for home. or say, broadcast use generally 8bits. whereas industry can be up to 16bits

variety of display sets occur, and begin to go to home. not only LCD and oled and PDP etc.

congratulation you change the new st TV set, and I still use old CRT for entertainment. you have lots of computer, but I still use my old 486 in lab.

However, tv set is not equal to monitor. and monitor always has more quality or specification than tv sets.

it seems you can understand what Im saying sometimes.

I understand you sometimes.

But you show little knowledge of either the way LCD works, nor its problems for some people.....

I like LCD as a computer monitor, no X-rays, less power usage etc etc and I do not care about the Black problems, I do not notice it, nor the blurring......as I do not play games....

But we need to let the readers know exactly what differences are so that they can choose, do you not agree?

Andy, you must saw many advertisement about the LCD, because you haven't listed any specification virtually. your viewpoint is side, different group has different need.

Today even if you play game, you can use lcd now, as I point out its specification. only expensive.

In fact, if you only use your computer for answer question at cr4, 386 machine is enough for your playing.of cause you can use your 4 core 2Ghz machine for this goal as well.

if you would know more about electronics, you would even point out white problem. Thats more important specification for a graphic worker.

I don't know if you know about the image, if you know more about it, I like to discuss about it with you. from plane to 3D, from color to resolution. from matrix to sybolic etc. as you like.

There is not dvi out, I have a geforce mx 420 64 bit card, I finally got the resolution higher with a better driver, I am waiting for a better card. Now with the higher rez I can't see it so well as I am getting older. It has a 12dc input so it is great in the car,

I used the svideo but that is crap, but I can use two monitors at a time.

I am waiting for the remote.

Mike

If you purchased a digital monitor, it should have come with a special cable. The ends of the cable are white and have parallel rows of holes. This is your digital video cable. If your computer's video card does not have a similar receptacle on it, then you can't use digital video. Unfortunately, all other connections (VGA, S-video, etc.) are not going to give you a really sharp picture.

Get a video card that supplies a digital video signal.

I have tried both on my LCD screen (same PC, same video card) and there is not really a lot of difference PROVIDED you have used the native mode resolution!!

The reason was that I had a DVI cable get damaged and over the weekend I used the SVGA connection, no problem at all!!

All I know is I get fantastic performance from my 24" LCD display when I use the DVI cable... The display has to be told, though, to use the DVI input. Once that is done, incredible display!!!

I guess if any part of the analog link is not as good as it could possibly be, the DVI will make a great difference.

I have a 19" Belinea LCD that was "best in class" last year for color and geometry and the graphics card is also top notch in every way, so there is a slight difference for me even, but not as world shaking as I have heard from several others like yourself......and of course I believe you completely in what you say.....digital should be best normally and easily discerned.

Perhaps the needs of a modern 24" LCD screen are even higher than my 19", its certainly possible!

I did have two 20" LCD monitors, one digital, the other analog. I decided to run them together to give me 40" of desktop. However, the analog monitor, while being fairly new, was so much less sharp than the digital monitor I had to stop using the anolog, because it's lack of resoultion (side-by-side) was too annoying.

It was used from ebay, don't have the dvi input on the sansui, it is a tv first.

I just have coax, vga and s video.

Now I know why it is not that sharp and will never be. Caveat emptor.

Thank you,

Mike

You need the "native" resolution of your Monitor/TV from some place, probably off the web....

Then using the mouse, go an select that resolution from your graphics card, you may see a dramatic difference.....also select a refresh rate that is say somewhere around 80khz(if i remember correctly) if you notice the screen "pumping" at all......

Perhaps you can get a manual in pdf format from the manufacturer to help you.....

I learnt many years ago not to buy stuff that did many jobs all at once as they tend not to do any single job well!!! It started with a drill and all its attachments, it got to be a bore to change one attachment for another.....I sold everything onto someone else.....and now I ONLY buy tools for each specific purpose!!!

Perhaps you could do the same if the native resolution trick does not help or relegate it to being a TV only.....!!!

You can get rid of flicker at about 70 to 75 cycles. But it seems that this guy was sold a monitor claiming to be digital when it wasn't.

Don't give up, if the monitor is working right analog connections should provide a perfectly acceptable display quality. I have a cheap second generation LCD monitor connected to one of my computers it works fine, and it only has analog connections. I know from experience what happens when the resolution is set wrong, you stated that you were stuck with one resolution setting that worked, I don't understand why you couldn't change your resolution. Before you give up on the monitor connect it to another computer with a different video card and see if you can make it work on that machine.One of the great things about LCDs is that there light and portable.

"Relatively light and portable," I have a digital 21" monitor that really is a bit on the heavy side. But I can tell you this - there is no comparison between digital and analog LCD monitors! Digital is "razor" sharp. However, you will be happy with your analog LCD monitor as long as you have nothing to compare it with.

Not necessarily happy, but a good clean image. As far as weight, this 21 inch CRT that I'm using now is compressing my desk a little, not to mention the hernia you get from moving it. When I get the moths out of my wallet I'm going to replace it with a nice LCD digital monitor. I'm sure the image is superior, and I've also heard that you can realize a performance increase, as far as frame rate etc. not sure that's true. I'd be curious to know if you noticed any performance differences.

No doubt digital is better. I would hate to see someone discard a piece of equipment i.e. waste money simply because his resolution setting is incorrect, or because he has a Problem with his video card.

A couple of words of advice if you're going to move to a new digital monitor...

1. Make sure your video card supports digital video. You can tell by that multi-pin port I talked about earlier.
2. If you go digital, you might want to try a larger screen. Instead of a 20'' or 21", try for the 24" screen. It uses the 9X16 format of HDTV, and the added real estate is well worth the price.
3. If you do go 9X16, make sure that your video card can provide 1900 X 1200 pixels. That's what's required to fill that long format.

If you use your PC for graphic work, you'll enjoy the crispness of digital LCD, and find the extra real estate really handy!!!

Good Luck!

I do not think he knew what he needed as he bought an analog LCD monitor! If it was sold as a Digital monitor, the seller should take it back!!

I do not think he even has a DVI connection on his graphics card either......

As he said himself - "Caveat emptor"......

You may be correct. But I can tell you from experience even high-end analog monitors look rather shabby compared to the picture created by digital monitors.

can mikedills tell us whether he bought this as a digital monitor or as an analog monitor?

bought it as a Lcd, thought they all were digital, no dvi, can't change rez as everything shifts and I don't have remote to change. Can only do 60 and 55 refresh or else no go. I only paid $100 for it and it is light and portable and can put it in car.

I have used several cards, will be getting svideo cable soon and not expecting much.

It was a good deal on EBAy, but not a steal.

Main thing is, it is first generation lcd, so it is analog.

I am happy with it, not estatic.

Thanx to all who helped, can't wait to have another problem so i can hear from all you techs.

Now, can anyone tell me why my p4 2.4 with 512 runs slower then my two p3's?

I am getting 1 gig of ram. It is a Dell optiplex gx240.

Mike

Did you try changing the resolution on your computer or on the monitor? It must be done on the computer to suit the monitor.....!!! You were not clear on this point, sorry!!

P4s are shit (sorry), P3s were often in many instances with some software equally as fast!!! Many do not know this.....all things being equal......!

Which is why only my Laptop comes with an Intel chip, all my other PCs are AMD, reliable and good bangs for the buck!!!