HDMI Connection problems

Crowbar_XL · July 15, 2015

First time posting here properly, so lets hope i dont screw something up

I am using a 1080p TV, neo led2411fhd (you probably wont find anything on it since its some random, who knows where came from, product) and i'm having problems with HDMI.

The picture looks much worse than when hooked up to VGA, i've found some topics on this over the internet, and looks like the TV basicaly recognises the connection as a TV signal and not a PC, so it sets picture quality acordingly (theres ghosting, picture is sharp and kinda washed out, compared to VGA on which it looks just fine). Now ive found that i need to most likely in TV settings change input name to "PC" or something like that - but theres basicaly no option to do it. Now i would use it over VGA since it mostly looks fine but... Then windows recognises it as Generic Non-PNP monitor and doesnt detect its resolution, so i can't, say, use Nvidia's DSR, since windows can't decide what resolution is this TV's native. And also on VGA (Or rather, i didn't mention earlier, PC, thats what it is called in sources menu on the TV) everytime the resolution changes, i have to manualy realign picture, but that's not the case on HDMI, so thats another reason why i'd use HDMI and not VGA. Also, speakers, they are nice enough addition. I did set the mode in Nvidia Controll panel to 1080p from 1080i (claimed to be native, but it looks like crap, even worse than as it is now) but that doesn't help much. also to note another thing, on VGA it goes up to (Well it can display up to that mode anyway) 1920x1200 and that actualy looks a bit more clear than 1920x1080 on VGA, which is weird because it doesn't look like this display is 16:10 because then things look a bit stretched horizontaly, just thought i'd mention that.

So to sum it up, i know, i know, this TV is the shadiest thing ever (and on top of that its a tv not a monitor), but if anyone has any ideas on possibly improving this, please let me know.

SubTract · July 16, 2015

Try running the panel at 1366x768 progressive,

Set your scaling to very small and set up clear type.

I would assume since the panel is claiming its native 1080 interlaced that the scaler is drawing some lines over other lines. Which would explain why it looks so funny.

It was fairly common for older cheap panels to claim they were 1080p with the scaler doing some trickery on 720p panels.

I'm guessing your panel is native 1366x768.

Crowbar_XL · July 16, 2015

No, i don't think it is. Everything is oversized, 1080p seems natural for a display of this size (23.4 inches). And no it doesn't look any better. This pannel isnt really that old, im guessing maybe 2-3 years, i think 1080p was common even back then.