Cheapest way to show HD videos on my TV from my desktop: HDMI or DVI PC output?

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My 55in LED LCD TV that I just got and picture looks good playing 1080p movies with my pc using vga but I know it could look better. I was reading that DVI can do HD video but I guess not 1080p so then I should be looking for a HDMI card? That seems cheaper.

I am looking for the cheapest way to be able to playback 1080p HD video on my HDTV with my PC. Currently I have the VGA cable connected but would like to upgrade to either HDMI or DVI. My PC has a nVidia GeForce 6150se nforce 430 video card which doesn't have either currently. I've been looking around for PCI video cards but everything seems kinda expensive. Does anyone know if my video card supports ADD2 or if there is a cheaper alternative to getting HD video to my HDTV from my PC?

You will probably won't notice any difference, at least on smaller screens, because VGA allows to transfer HD videos as well. Unlike digital HDMI and DVI, VGA is analog, so the higher the resolution, the worse the quality of the video.

DVI and HDMI can do 780p and 1080p videos. The only difference is that HDMI can transfer audio as well as video.

The cheapest way is probably to get a video card with DVI and connect it to PC.

But I would buy a network media player that allows to play almost any video from your local network. It will probably cost the same as a video card with HDMI (or an adapter card with HDMI), but a network media player can be placed in another room, has a remote control and many other useful features. Besides it wouldn't matter whether your computer is powerful enough to show 1080p videos, because the player will do the decoding.