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PC DVI to Panasonic TC-P46C2 plasma TV HDMI?

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Hi.

I'm a newbie when it comes to HDTV, so please bear with me. I have a PC with an nVidia GeForce4 TI4600 video card that supports dual monitors. One output is VGA, the other is DVI. I want to plug the DVI output of my video card to the HDMI input of my Panasonic TC-P46C2 720p plasma HDTV, using the cable in the link below.

Will this work? I know DVI won't pass audio, which is fine. I have the PC hooked to the stereo for audio.

I've already bought another cable that was supposed to have worked, (a VGA to component video cable) but didn't. I don't want to keep blowing money on useless cables.

Thanks much,
Bobbo :-)
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RE: PC DVI to Panasonic TC-P46C2 plasma TV HDMI? - blue_z 19:39:11 07/21/10 (0)
Hi there

> I've already bought another cable that was supposed to have worked, (a VGA to component video cable)

If you had posted that question, you might have gotten replies that that a VGA-to-component-video cable would not work (for 99.9% of the video cards in use).

Just a guess, but you might have problems with that old nVidia card and a stretched image: the PC will probably render the image using square pixels and the Panny will display rectangular pixels. Maybe you want to do more investigation before purchase?

Regards
RE: PC DVI to Panasonic TC-P46C2 plasma TV HDMI? - bassbinotoko 01:25:17 07/21/10 (0)
It should work. I didn't have any issues hooking an 8500GT to a Sony 720p CRT using a Philips (?) DVI to HDMI cable (I was in too much of a hurry to wait for a Monoprice cable). Apart from the lack of HDCP support in the video card, but AnyDVD fixed that.

Things occasionally go wrong the other way, like from an HDMI source to a DVI monitor. The WD TV Live won't go above 480p when plugged into a DVI monitor. Clever people have found a way to patch the firmware so it'll do a more reasonable 720p, which means my dreams of enjoying high-definition content while camping in my panel truck are not hopeless.

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