Comments on: How can I check whether my LCD monitor is digital or analog signal? http://www.lcdmonitorbuyingguide.com/blog/how-can-i-check-whether-my-lcd-monitor-is-digital-or-analog-signal/ LCD displays, plasma and touch screen Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:48:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chickster http://www.lcdmonitorbuyingguide.com/blog/how-can-i-check-whether-my-lcd-monitor-is-digital-or-analog-signal/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Chickster Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:52:08 +0000 http://www.lcdmonitorbuyingguide.com/blog/how-can-i-check-whether-my-lcd-monitor-is-digital-or-analog-signal/#comment-54 If you plug a DVI, (Digital Visual Interface), cable into the DVI port of an LCD monitor, it will be digital. (And plug the other end of the DVI cable, into a DVI port on your computer. Only a dedicated graphics card, has this port!) Why? Because computers normally put out a digital signal. The signal has to be converted to analog, for a VGA monitor, or a VGA connection on an LCD monitor. An LCD monitor is naturally digital. 1.Computers put out a digital signal ( ALWAYS! ) 2.Liquid Crystal Display monitors are DIGITAL. 3.To use a VGA monitor, you are slowing the signal down from your computer. 4.To use a VGA port on an LCD monitor, you are slowing the signal down from your computer. If you plug a DVI, (Digital Visual Interface), cable into the DVI port of an LCD monitor, it will be digital. (And plug the other end of the DVI cable, into a DVI port on your computer. Only a dedicated graphics card, has this port!)

Why? Because computers normally put out a digital signal. The signal has to be converted to analog, for a VGA monitor, or a VGA connection on an LCD monitor. An LCD monitor is naturally digital.

1.Computers put out a digital signal ( ALWAYS! )
2.Liquid Crystal Display monitors are DIGITAL.
3.To use a VGA monitor, you are slowing the signal down from your computer.
4.To use a VGA port on an LCD monitor, you are slowing the signal down from your computer.

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