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sc94597 on 13 April 2009
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Jeronimo66 said:
sc94597 said:
Jeronimo66 said:
Gilgamesh said:

Isn't a HDMI cable better then VGA?

 

 My experience is that HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is better suited for movies, that's why sony touts it so much because it is suited for Blu-ray movies.

Any standard can be used for games, but I find VGA to be the best, computers use VGA, and look how beautiful PC games look, thats why I went with VGA for 360.

........and I wonder is there even a VGA cable out for the PS3? If not, PS3 owners are missing out.

Most PC gamers that I know use DVI, which is better than VGA and is equal to HDMI(I believe the only difference is HDMI supports sound and video in one cable). VGA is worse because it is Analog , and it loses some quality when converting the digitial out put of a video card to analog.  They all run at the same resolutions on consoles though so you won't notice a difference worthy enough to claim one game graphically superior to another due to cable differences.

Edit: Also PC games look "amazing" because most gaming PCs are more powerful than consoles, not because they use different cables.

Well if component was used for PC gaming I think there will be a degradation in picture quality, no?

 

How about I give you an example.

Crysis/Warhead, by many, is believed to be the best looking game so far, and the most technically impressive. Now lets say somebody is playing Crysis on a HDTV at 720p resolutions(we will use 720p because there aren't that many console games that do higher) at highest settings using component. Now lets say that they play a 360 that has HDMI and put in Gears of War 2.  Both games are running at the same resolution, and same TV. The only difference is that they are using two different cables, and are on different platforms. Do you think Gears of War 2 will look better than Crysis because it is using a better cable? I don't think so. Now Crysis might have lost some quality due to the component, but the quality it loses is so small it is barely noticable to most people. That is why I say the difference isn't significant enough to drastically change the way a game looks when in comparison. Remember though, this is all assuming they are running at the same resolution.

 

So yes you lose some picture quality, but nothing very noticable, or significant.