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There is one thing that is painfully missing on any smart TV I've seen: VGA input.
by dfox 10y ago
There is one thing that is painfully missing on any smart TV I've seen: VGA input.
- rspeer 10y agoVGA has limited bandwidth, so it looks horrible at the scale of a modern TV screen. Show someone a VGA signal on a TV and they'll assume the TV sucks.
- douche 10y agoHuh? Maybe if you're trying to push 4K through it, but it's plenty good enough up to 1920x1080.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoI was using VGA to drive a 1920x1200 monitor at work for months. The image was more than sufficient to write code on. Most people looking at VGA on a TV at TV viewing distances wouldn't be able to tell the difference. You get more artifacting from the video codec than VGA output.
- mintplant 10y agoVGA-HDMI adapters are cheap and readily available.
- stuaxo 10y agoThis must be a regional thing, in the UK (possibly the rest of Europe) they do. I normally connect my laptop like this.
- rconti 10y agoI haven't owned a laptop with a VGA output since about 2008, so it's not relevant to me. I don't think it's a smart TV drawback, it's just a "newfangled stuff doesn't support old stuff" problem.