Ho ..sorry i an a beginner on this field...i want to buy a vga or video card for watching movies loaded in my computer on my tv screen ..so i want to know what is the difference between the VGA and The Video card..my computer is pentium 4 so if i bought a 256 mb vga card or video card with 2048x1536 Max.Res. is enough to get a clear stable picture on my 27 inch tv....please help me....

deejay88

I see it's been a while since you posted your question, so this may be centuries too late. But, anyway....

The video card you mentioned (256 mb, etc.) is plenty to shoot the image onto a TV set. The important thing is to make sure that both the video card and your TV have a common connector type (i.e. both have an S-Video port, or composite video connectors).

VGA (Video Graphics Array) is simply a "standard" or a benchmark, if you will, to rate video cards. The VGA standard required a video card to be able to display 16 colors with a resolution of 640x480, as well as many other specifications that don't mean anything to us.

There are many other standards, but today all you hear about is VGA and SVGA (Super VGA). SVGA is the "norm" nowadays. When you hear terms like "UVGA" or "XVGA", realize that those aren't actual standards, but rather marketing terms (they are, in actuality, SVGA).

Hope this makes it clear as mud.

Cheers,
D.J.

ScottGem

The problem is that VGA and NTSC (the system used to display images on TV screens) is very different. The card actually converts the signals to NTSC and then sends them to the TV. That's why you need a card with TV Out. So it really doesn't matter what the video card supports, its the TV Out that matters.