DVI to HDMI

[neil_bolton]

Hello all,

I use a pc at home to watch TV and any movies etc that I aqquire.

However, I wish to start watching proper HD stuff, and use a HDMI connection to my Samsung (yes, I know Plotters).

My pc has a DVI connection on the graphics card, do the DVI to HDMI converters work well or am I best off changing the graphics card?

[neil_bolton]

ps not too bothered that the DVI doesn't carry audio as the box has optical out and/or spdif anyway...

[bonsai]

I use this setup to stream from my PC to my TV. Works absolutely fine. 1080p is no problem, looks divine.

Edited by bonsai on Friday 15th January 12:03

[neil_bolton]

bonsai said:

I use this setup to stream from my PC to my TV. Works absolutely fine. 1080p is no problem, looks divine.

I have two choices at the moment;

'swap' my mental work pc for the home pc, which can't cope with HD, or upgrade the home pc with a new graphics card - my question being, does the graphics card handle the HD content as it currently stutters?

[bonsai]

I know the newer ATi cards boast about their onboard HD decoding capabilities however I always imagined the CPU had to do a lot of processing for HD playback too. So in short, I don't know! I was under the impression you need a half decent rig (with regards to all components) to get good HD playback, other peoples mileage may vary.

[neil_bolton]

bonsai said:

I know the newer ATi cards boast about their onboard HD decoding capabilities however I always imagined the CPU had to do a lot of processing for HD playback too. So in short, I don't know! I was under the impression you need a half decent rig (with regards to all components) to get good HD playback, other peoples mileage may vary.

That was how I saw it too, but was wondering if anyone had any experiences...

[mackie1]

The wire protocol for HDMI is the same as DVI so the converter will work fine.

[pmanson]

I do this and it works fine.

In fact I ouput to two screens - DVI-HDMI to the 50" Plasma and DVI-VGA to a small touch screen on my AV rack