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Chienworks wrote on 1/4/2015, 2:43 PM
It's been my experience that any way you connect a monitor that Windows can use will work just fine. There are some external video converter boxes that may have limitations of what they'll work with, but neither Window nor Vegas has such limitations.

Now, that being said, the colors on the screen may not be the same in all situations. I have two monitors on my main desktop, the primary one connected DVI->DVI and the secondary VGA->VGA. The secondary one is slightly muted and just a little bit yellow/greenish compared to the primary. Even with all the controls the monitors and the video drivers offer i can't quite get them to match. This means that the large preview on the secondary monitor won't look exactly the same as the small preview on the Vegas screen. The difference is minor, but if i were producing video for broadcast or professional markets it would be enough to cause issues.
Poomp wrote on 1/4/2015, 3:16 PM
I've used an hdmi cable and it worked fine. In fact, any display that windows detects and can output to should work fine. I think I've even used an old tube tv with my old computer that had a composite video output.
mark-r wrote on 1/4/2015, 4:52 PM
Thanks appreciate the help maybe i need a new hdmi cable.
Tim L wrote on 1/4/2015, 5:47 PM
[I]Reading the help section for connecting an external display seems to say that you can only use a DVI to hdmi cable to an hdmi port on a HD TV.[/I]

Maybe that was written at a time when HDMI ports on a PC or laptop were rare or non-existent. DVI is an earlier interface, HDMI came later, but the two interfaces have enough built-in commonality -- including electrical compatibility -- that mixing the two simply requires the right cable, with the proper connection on each end. If your PC/laptop has an HDMI output port, a normal HDMI cable should work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

Some DVI interfaces even include [I]analog[/I] outputs so you can connect a DVI port to an analog CRT.
mark-r wrote on 1/6/2015, 12:40 PM
thanks for clarifying that Tim