HDMI Ports

[Uriel]

So I bought a fancy laptop and it has a HDMI port on the side. I've used s-video connections to HD televisions and it obviously looks poor. So obviously I'm wondering how it will look using the HDMI cable.

 

[Shamrock]

So I bought a fancy laptop and it has a HDMI port on the side. I've used s-video connections to HD televisions and it obviously looks poor. So obviously I'm wondering how it will look using the HDMI cable.

Should look pretty damn good. HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface which is basically self explanatory. Every time I've ever connected s-video, it always looked washed out like shit. HDMI will allow you to send your video at 1080p and audio at a cool, crisp 192KHZ. Basically, you are able to send high quality with HDMI.

 

[No Limit]

It will look awesome. Almost as good as a monitor.

 

[AtomicSpark]

It's a scam to promote DRM content. Use DVI.

 

[Uriel]

Now I just need an HDMI cable.....and an HD tv.

Planning on closing the lid on the laptop, putting it out of the way and running a mouse and game pad from it while it's connected to the tv.

 

[Asus]

HDMI should look really crisp. Just as sharp as your laptop LCD but HUGE.

If it ever looks a little fuzzy then that would be because your graphics card is resizing the picture to adjust for TV overscan. Either disable in control panel and loose a half inch of desktop space or set your HDTV to 1:1 pixel with no overscan.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Yes, I've noticed my puny VGA external port on my notebook PC cannot support high resolutions without strange wavy vertical lines. Hopefully my next one will have a more powerful graphics card and a DVI port (HDMI is very unlikely on business laptops). I would like to try to use my "desktop replacement" as a real desktop replacement again.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Now I just need an HDMI cable.....and an HD tv.

Planning on closing the lid on the laptop, putting it out of the way and running a mouse and game pad from it while it's connected to the tv.

geez lol. I was about to buy a dvd upconverter only to realize my hdtv doesn't have HDMI, my plasma does but that looks crisp enough already

 

[Uriel]

Basically, I want to actually look left to right when I'm crossing train tracks on TF2 with a monster sized TV. But that's years down the road.

 

[Asus]

I wouldn't worry about it being HDMI over DVI unless you want to play Blu-ray on the lappy.

 

[ehudyoda]

Go for it.
Look's great through an HDMI connection.

laptop with an HDMI output ? must be a hefty one.
What specs ?

 

[Uriel]

HP Pavilion dv7-1025nr
Intel P8400 Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
4GB DDR2 RAM
HP Infinity BrightView (1680x1050) display
320GB 5400rpm HDD
512mb nVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Webcam
Intel 5100ABGN + Bluetooth

Loving it so far. Playing my TF2 smoothly along with all my other games....except Crysis.

I do miss my big fancy 22 inch monitor with a quadcore, but this is doing nicely. The fiance likes it too because we're playing old lucasarts games on here.