Analog Connection |
DVI Connection |
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Supported |
Supported |
Analog
video connections are the type of VGA interface most commonly in use at the
moment but the 181T offers support for both Analog and Digital connections.
The basic differences between an analog display adapter and a DVI (digital) display
adapter is that with the blue analog cable, the image is transmitted to your monitor as an
analog signal.
On the DVI cable, the images arrives
at the display as a digital stream of one's and zero's. When these display signals are
sent to an LCD display via an analog cable, the picture must be translated to
a digitally signal before it can be processed and shown.
On the other hand, if you happen to have
a digital DVI output on your video card, the digital signals are simply sent
right to the display to be shown on the screen. Is there a difference between the two ways of
connecting to a LCD display? Well yes an no. On the visual level there
are not that many user perceivable differences in display quality that you will notice.