Hi there!
I have been having problems with my setup for some time. I hope somebody here will recognise the symptoms and maybe be able to tell me what part of the chain is causing this.
I am using an over 5 years old Samsung 32R32B 32 inch LCD TV (1366x768 native resolution) hooked up to my PC. My video card is a Radeon HD 4670 with regularly updated Catalyst drivers. I am running Windows 7 x64 Professional.
In the past I have connected the TV via VGA (15 pin connector). Once I found a decent cable, the picture was flawless and beautiful. I set my resolution to 1366x768 and set it up pixel-perfect on the TV.
However I recently bought a Blu-Ray drive for my PC, so obviously I have to connect my TV via HDMI now, because of HDCP. But using HDMI I have never been able to get as beautiful a picture on my TV as I had before.
My TV will accept 1280x720, 1366x768 and 1920x1080 no problem, but none of them look the way you would expect a digital video signal to look on an LCD (i.e. the way it looks on my primary PC screen, which is hooked up via DVI-D). No matter what resolution I choose, or what pixel format or overscan settings I set up in my driver panel, I cannot get rid of these two issues:
a) The picture is strongly blurred,
b) Strands of colourful artifact are dancing over certain banded areas and on smooth lines.
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The blurriness I can sort of combat with my TV's "sharpen" feature, but that of course causes halos and all sorts of new artifacts that I feel I shouldn't have to put up with. After all, a digital video signal should just be displayed perfectly, pixel-by-pixel, as long as it is in the native resolution ... right?
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As you can imagine, I am pretty miffed. If it weren't for stupid HDCP I could just keep using my VGA cable, but obviously that is not an option.
Does anybody recognise this? Is my cable bad? Is it a driver compatibility issue? Am I overlooking somthing in the setup?
Thank you very much!
I have been having problems with my setup for some time. I hope somebody here will recognise the symptoms and maybe be able to tell me what part of the chain is causing this.
I am using an over 5 years old Samsung 32R32B 32 inch LCD TV (1366x768 native resolution) hooked up to my PC. My video card is a Radeon HD 4670 with regularly updated Catalyst drivers. I am running Windows 7 x64 Professional.
In the past I have connected the TV via VGA (15 pin connector). Once I found a decent cable, the picture was flawless and beautiful. I set my resolution to 1366x768 and set it up pixel-perfect on the TV.
However I recently bought a Blu-Ray drive for my PC, so obviously I have to connect my TV via HDMI now, because of HDCP. But using HDMI I have never been able to get as beautiful a picture on my TV as I had before.
My TV will accept 1280x720, 1366x768 and 1920x1080 no problem, but none of them look the way you would expect a digital video signal to look on an LCD (i.e. the way it looks on my primary PC screen, which is hooked up via DVI-D). No matter what resolution I choose, or what pixel format or overscan settings I set up in my driver panel, I cannot get rid of these two issues:
a) The picture is strongly blurred,
b) Strands of colourful artifact are dancing over certain banded areas and on smooth lines.
The blurriness I can sort of combat with my TV's "sharpen" feature, but that of course causes halos and all sorts of new artifacts that I feel I shouldn't have to put up with. After all, a digital video signal should just be displayed perfectly, pixel-by-pixel, as long as it is in the native resolution ... right?
As you can imagine, I am pretty miffed. If it weren't for stupid HDCP I could just keep using my VGA cable, but obviously that is not an option.
Does anybody recognise this? Is my cable bad? Is it a driver compatibility issue? Am I overlooking somthing in the setup?
Thank you very much!