Hopefully not a stupid question

[ffutures]

Yet another computer graphics question, but totally unrelated to the others I've asked recently.

The computer I use as a media PC has VGA out only. My TV has VGA and HDMI inputs, but for some reason doesn't support wide screen VGA - the screen is actually 1366 x 768, but the best graphic mode it supports through this port is 1024 x 768 standard aspect, not widescreen. For TV programs etc. I can work around this by stretching the picture to fill the screen and setting VLC media player to a pixel aspect of 4:3, but most other programs have no way to compensate.

I'd been vaguely thinking about a VGA to HDMI adapter box, but that's seriously expensive. However, I just discovered that DVI to HDMI appears to be a lot easier to implement - just an adapter that costs around £2 and an appropriate cable. And you can get a basic 128mb DVI card with PC Express interface around a tenner.

Has anyone got any experience with this, and is there any down-side I should be aware of?

(Apart from needing an HDMI switch since I will then have two HDMI outputs and one socket on the TV...)

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Only thing to watch for, based on my experience is the sound channel. If you're using separate sound out it's fine, but if you had been using the sound input next to the VGA input you'd find that the HDMI channel expects the sound to be integrated.

Other than that what you're proposing works fine.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm using separate sound to a home cinema amp, so no problems. Thanks!