Which would be better for HDMI output VGA or S-video ?

[VAIL]

Hi, I have a laptop, and a very nice HDTV, which has a port for HDMI input, thus I am planning to connect my laptop to the TV, my laptop has a VGA and S-Video output. Thus I am confused through which medium shall I connect to get the best output? And in fact I don’t know the exact which cable should I use to convert the VGA to HDMI. From where I get such a cable for me, need suggestion.

[MaCiNToSHeR]

You can get this kind of cable from any leading showroom of TV as well as from the computer hardware shop, I am not sure that you’ll get the exact cable for converting VGA to HDMI, because as far as I know I have heard about the cable that converts HDMI to VGA, but not the reverse, but still I would like to recommend you that you should visit any shop from where you’ll get the exact wire hopefully.

[OS-X-10+]

According to me, VGA is hundred time better than the S-Video, because through the VGA you’ll get the highest resolution, a very good picture quality, off course not same as the HDMI but not bad as S-video. Thus I would simply suggest you to have the cable for VGA only, and according to me you should buy a converter instead of buying the cable because, first of all you’ll get it too costly and another thing is most probably you would not get the same what you’re expecting.

[xanix]

I would like to suggest you that you should buy a converter for connecting the cable because the VGA output is analog whereas HDMI is digital, to maintain the compatibility. See I would suggest you to have The Atlona VGA to HDMI Converter, which is powered via USB and it not only convert to HDMI but along with that it has a built-in image scalar to ensure that the picture on your TV looks the way it should, even though the resolution of your monitor set to different.

[southparx]

See, as far as I know it would be easier to connect your laptop through VGA or S-Video than to find an analog VGA to digital HDMI converter, because most probably no one use this combination actually, and I think whatever you are searching likely does not exist, thus you have to buy the actual cable, even though it is too expensive, otherwise I don’t think you would be able to connect the laptop to the HDTV.