Hello hello,

so I got my Samsung 245T  .
I am using it with my laptop (HP8510p), which has a VGA and an HDMI port, but unfortunately no DVI port.
I tried to connect it first with VGA, and it looks fine but not extremely sharp, which I attributed to the analog connection, cable, etc. So I used an HDMI cable as I do not have a DVI port. But that looks disgusting! Screen resolution changes to 1920x1080, and the image is wider than the screen on the broadside, and narrower than the screen in height, and the image looks terrible, somewhat like a TV in closeup - imagine a heavily artifacted JPG with all oversharpened edges and stuff.
so....what would you do? is a HDMI-to-DVI adaptor a solution? or how can i improve the HDMI picture? i mean it is supposed to work ;-)

btw i have tested it both on linux and windows.

thanks!
simone

Hi,

Try adjusting your screen resolution in windows screen properties.
Set sharpening in monitor menu to zero, set sharpening on video card to zero.

Patrick.

yeah i tried that, there is nothing but 1920x1080 and then by far lower ones. there is a sharpening menu, but even reducing it to zero makes it still look strangely bad. i can set the screen to wide, 16:9, 4:3 and "just scan", but all options except wide just use a small portion of the monitor.

what about using an HDMI to DVI adaptor?

simone

Quote from: simsi on January 15, 2010, 18:18
yeah i tried that, there is nothing but 1920x1080 and then by far lower ones. there is a sharpening menu, but even reducing it to zero makes it still look strangely bad. i can set the screen to wide, 16:9, 4:3 and "just scan", but all options except wide just use a small portion of the monitor.

what about using an HDMI to DVI adaptor?

simone

Those excist.. but i have no experience with them.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10419
Patrick.

cool cool cool. i bought one and it works perfectly!! :-)))