HDMI quality really poor on M1330

Ok well i bought a hdmi cable today and when i plug it into y tv i get a really bad looking image. It is outputting in 720p which alought my TV supports it it isnt the native res, 1360x768 is.

How do i fix this and get a gd image.

Also when i try to play a movie it is really pixelated and washed out.

Could this be a cable problem.

 

Picture quality looks great on my TV! Makes my Netflix subscription worth more than double its price. A single cable for both video and audio is very convenient. The washed out and pixelated look is definitely not your cable and almost definitely your source. The cable is carrying a digital signal. If your cable was bad you'd have audio dropouts and lots of blocking or stuttering in the picture. What you describe sounds like high compression artifacts.

I do see some borders, but I didn't look into fixing it since it didn't bother me much. I seem to recall some overscan/underscan or picture resizing features in the nVidia drivers.

 

Mine works great as well (Even with the $8 10 foot cable from newegg )

 

ok well i got the quality looking better btu vga is still clearer. (VGA uses 1360x768 while hdmi uses 1280x720) i cant figure out how to use 1360x768 with hdmi (with 60hz)

 

I think since most TV's won't actually accept the native display panel resolution through HDMI, only the standard TV resolutions are available. If you resize the picture to your display with the nVidia utility you can get it better, but in general 720P LCD TV's never display pixels mapped 1:1 unless they have monitor-like capabilities that will allow them to accept their native resolution. You might have some luck with tools like Power Strip that can force non-standard resolutions out of video cards.

 

i played around with a couple resolutions to get it to look nice on my 720P tv

 

The problem is with your cheap cable!

 

Doubtful. There is very little difference in the cables. I mean cheap = bad is wrong.

Some dirt cheap ones are just fine. It only makes a difference when you go like 30ftish that a higher quality one MAY be neccessary

 

Nope. There is a lot of proof showing that the million dollar monster cable is no better that a cheap $10 cable.

 

I’m using HDMI to connect my external 22” monitor running at 1680x1050, picture looks very sharp (much better than VGA). When I go to nVidia Control Panel > Video & Television > Change the signal or HD format, it look like this :



As you can see, in mine the default format is not a standard HDTV format. What is shown in yours (assuming you have a 8400M GS)?

 

WHere do you get that screen? I dcon't have that option "Change the signal or HD format"

 

The issue is that some TVs only accept HDTV signals via DVI (480i/p, 720p, 1080i/p) while others like my LG allow a large range of standard PC resolutions including 1360*768

 

So why then, when I hook up my Polaroid LCD TV via HDMI, and set the resolution to 1440x900 (its native resolution according to the box), does the text still look really blurry? Is it because I cheaped out and bought a crappy TV? When hooked up via VGA, the text looks a lot clearer.

 

If this is how it will be, I'm going to send it back. What is the sense, since my goal was to be able to watch a movie on my 40" Sony via HDMI and I can't even do that properly....

 

As per your other thread, I think your issue in a configuration one, not a hardware issue as I can set the resolution fine on my m1330 and you state that your desktop can output the right resolution fine via dvi to the screen.