Semi-OT: DVI-to-HDMI cables

[ted leslie]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10419&cs_id=1041902&p_id=2029&seq=1&format=2

rather then a whole cable, for 4$, assuming the genders are what you need, but its probably 4$
for other types of convertors as well (see bottom of page).
Maybe your getting prices for cables from "The Source" they usually have a 50,000% mark up :)



-tl

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:13:08 -0500
"Giles Orr" <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I'm considering buying a 1080p LCD TV and perhaps this isn't OT at all
> because I have every intention of using it as a monitor with Linux as
> well as for movies.  A friend has an older Sceptre 37" and we had very
> little trouble getting it set up at 1920x1080 with Linux - but it has
> a VGA in.  A few of the current batch of LCD TVs come with VGA ins,
> and I think I've seen one or two with DVI ins, but pretty much all of
> the ones I'm looking at come with HDMI ins.  So if I don't get DVI/VGA
> in, and I buy one of those ludicrously expensive DVI-to-HDMI cables
> (currently about $75 each), would it allow me to run the LCD TV as a
> monitor at a full 1920x1080 resolution?  I have a video card that will
> support this.
> 
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