hdtv hdmi issue (post processing)

[Beezy]

This has been posted before , I know... But HDMI gives me poor quality color and unreadable blurry text.

I've gone through all settings in CCC and my vizio 32" HDTV .

720p\vga looks great

I think the problem is on the TV end.

Will A dvi to HDMI cable work to get rid of post processing troubles. Is it possible the audio signal in hdmi is causing it because if that's the case I think this would work? (Dvi at HD 7870)

Lastly will people kindly list their HDTV brands or models that works with HDMI male to male 1080p perfect picture ? I'll buy a new HDTV if i have to.

I'm yet to try HDMI To HDMI on my laptop I forget if its my old one that does that or the new one. my new one might be just VGA I'll check when I get home. I do remember the quality being much better than it is on the pc though when connecting hdmi 1080p on the laptop. There still overscan issues (correctable in CCC) like pc has but the quality is great and pc is crap..still is think edid is somehow to blame.

I have powerstrip but I'm afraid to damage my HDTV with its delicate settings so any info on that program and your experiences would be great.

In my online quest for answers I found that a lot of Samsung's have this issue and I think vizio is made by Samsung so yeah..

Suggestions? Anyone had the same issue and fixed it with the HDMI to dvi cable or adapter? Or does anyone use their hdtv w hdmi1080p successfully???

I'm so sick of 720p on 32" guys lol

 

[Pranjal619]

YEs i used with mine xbox 360 hdmi cable.try using a another high speed hdmi cable and reply

 

[Beezy]

i have a new cable in the mail, but this is the cable i use for my PS3 with no problems...im pretty sure its the HDTV because my laptop had similar crap results as the PC does when connected to the VIZIO via HDMI.

Im still hoping people will comment with 32" HDTV's they are using as PC monitors at 1080p via HDMI, i will gladly go buy a new TV if i cant get the right settings in custom resolution utility and powerstrip etc. i did find one settings that was considerably better, so im hopeful.

any ideas guys?///

 

[Beezy]

What model TV is it?
TVs often have lots of processing you must disable; once that is done, they usually look much better. Perhaps you just missed a setting, so if you can tell me the model, I might be able to give you the settings.

P.S. An LG TV is one option if you get a new one... or a large monitor.

http://store.vizio.com/e321vl.html

okay now im confused...when connected through HDMI windows and CCC and CustomResolutionUtility anddd powerstrip 3.0 all recognize it as having up to 75hz refresh and 1920 x 1080 res. The link says its only up to 720p but im using hdmi/1080p right now, in fact, in CRU i found a setting (automatic-CRT mode) that makes the quality as it should be, nice and crisp text and good colors...only problem is the horizontal lines at the top of the screen all burry and artifacty..im getting close to the right settings i can feel it...im looking into making a custom resolution because any manual tweaking has it revery to automatic-LCD mode which is the original quality (crap, blurry text, bad colors and saturation etc).

heres a picture of the "improvment", i havent been able to get any results with powerstrip but CUR has been the money so far..
http://s15.postimg.org/50l7qo8cr/IMG_20140513_202829.jpg

only occurs at the top 25% or so of the screen, all the way across horizontally. the bottom 80% looks great though...

 

[Beezy]

So basically im thinking its because the HDTV has no support for full 1080p? Is what I'm getting w HDMI 1080i? Or some upscaled version of 1000 x1770 or whatever ati defaults to?...

If in gonna stick with 1366 x 768 I can just keep using dvi/VGA because its perfect. I really want 1080p...I'd hate to buy a whole new HDTV just to have the same problem.

Right now I'm trying to use power strip to try to tweak what cru did. Running my monitor in CRT mode might be causing a capacitor to act up or maybe the TV is simply failing (over 3 years old now?)

 

[Beezy]

I just read through that manual... Looks like they want us to use VGA for pc since it is optimized right out of the box.

Anyone care to explain how I'm pushing 1920 x 1080 on a HDTV whose maximum listed resolution
Is 1366 x 768? And I've gotten the quality at 1080 to look great too (other than the CRT horizontal lines type issue)

 

[KevinAr18]

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[Beezy]

The TV resizes any 1920x1080 signal to 1366x768. So no matter what signal you send it, you are always seeing exactly 1366x768 pixels. For movies, this might be fine, since movies do not have lots of detail (they are highly compressed). However, for computer use, every pixels matters and you should only set a computer to the native resolution of the TV. In this case, that amount is 1366x768; otherwise, the TV will resize the picture and result in picture quality loss (blurring).
So, only use 1366x768

As for VGA vs HDMI.
VGA only looks better because it probably disables all the processing features that mess up the picture. However, VGA is analog and can't produce as perfect a picture as digital.
If you use HDMI and change the settings mentioned earlier, then it should come out even better than VGA.

However, if you have DVI, it is possible that this may turn out better than HDMI or VGA. If you have DVI port on the TV, then by plugging in a DVI cable it would give you a digital connection, but might also disable all those extra processing features the TV adds. In other words, the TV might treat the DVI port like a computer instead of like a TV.

Im using a VGA cable (as the HDTV only has VGA) but DVI on the GPU end. That's the best quality picture, its perfectly clear HD at 1366 x 768. But using the HDMI and your settings, and some factory reset setups, and some luck ive gotten the HDMI settings to work alright, but still like u said, not true 1080, and a bit blurry. but overall its decent.

im looking into other hdtvs for when this one fails that do native 1080p