Hi folks,
A while back when I first got my Samsung 32" LCD TV (the model number escapes me at the moment) I bought a HDMI cable from Asda to hook up my PC via HDMI instead of VGA.
Anyway, when I hooked it up wit that cable, the picture looked absolutely terrible and no amount of tinkering in the Display/Driver/TV settings seemed to offer a cure, so I gave up and went back to VGA which worked fine (I put the issue down to the TV having a resolution of 1366x768, so not exactly 720p, wasn't sure about the HDMI spec for non-HD resolutions).
I was in behind the TV yesterday sorting out some cables and I decided to give the cable another bash, what with me now running Win7 on the PC, figure a driver issue may be resolved now - if that was the issue - and it worked and looked waaay better than it did before! I noticied I had it plugged in to HDMI2 instead of HDMI1 and I couldn't let this stay, so i switched it to HDMI1 and the picture went back to the rubbish it was before.
Do I put this down to a dodgy HDMI port, or are there different 'types' of HDMI interface that will affect what resolutions the ports can support?