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    Dodgy HDMI port?

    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?
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    Re: Dodgy HDMI port?

    Just sounds like a bad HDMI port. I've never heard of that happening before, but I supose it could happen.

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    Re: Dodgy HDMI port?

    Some TV's (my Samsung included) have a HDMI port labelled DVI if its not labelled it might be in the manual. This might be the problem you are having.

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