HDMI WOAS
JohnDelaquiox
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I was recently able to upgrade one of my monitors to a Westinghouse 24 LED 1080P Led Tv and it kind of sucks.
My other panel is an Acer 24 Inch plugged in Via DVI and it just looks so much better.
Is it my new Panel or the HDMI Connector? The other plug it has is VGA, I can probably try and switch to that.
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HDMI should be exactly the same in quality as a DVI connection.
(Only use VGA if you really, really have to.)
I doubt the HDMI is to blame, unless it is broken of course or depending on your definition of "sucks".
Did you calibrate the new monitor? (google some tests)
Maybe it needs to be used a few times before it displays the way it is meant to?
I've messed around with the settings for days and am still happy with it. It looks fine for games and movies but when it comes to Daz it looks horrible.
It will depend on the dot pitch for the pixels. The smaller the dot pitch the sharper the picture for the display. In other words a dot pitch of .24 will be sharper than .35 on the same size display. The higher the display size the smaller the dot pitch has to be to make the image sharper. Think of it like a dot matrix printer an A4 image at 100DPI will not look as sharp as one at 240DPI but they will both look fine as a normal photograph of 6"x5". But if you view the A4 prints from farther away then there wont be much difference in the two A4 prints. Try sitting farther away from the new screen and see if the image gets sharper. If it does then the new screen has a bigger dot pitch than your Acer.
HDMI is quite different then DVI. I have dual 24" monitors, on a previous vid card output was HDMI/DVI, there was a noticeable difference, specially in brightness/contrast/color, with same exact settings. Now I have a vid card with dual HDMI output, monitors are the same.
Its not the HDMI. I own an HP Pavilion 25xi that has DVI and HDMI and both produce equal quality. The issue is that you bought a TV and not a monitor. TVs are not meant to be used as monitors. They have fewer pixels per inch versus the same sized monitor BECAUSE the picture is always moving and you DONT have time to focus on lack of detail. Also you're normally sitting further away from a TV then you are a computer monitor.
That is what I thought originally. But I am also using a 32" 1080P Tv as a secondary screen for meetings and also for testing, and that one actually looks really good. Daz looks brilliant on it. Difference with that is it it using VGA not HDMI.
My plasma always worked ok using VGA from my laptop and I could get full HD 1920 x 1080 on it my laptop screen was only 1200 x 800 but it could be run at the higher resolution.
So doubt is fact it is a TV, I did Poser cloth sims and all on it and my laptop had very crappy graphics yet coped.
I would try the VGA cord as well as HDMI to see if it makes a difference, I actually had my second monitor on my desktop on VGA until I replaced my grapgics card too and suddenly found I needed to buy a HDMI cable!!
Yeah I am going to switch over to an VGA.
I have tweaked the settings over and over and I just don't like how it looks, or rather how Daz and Vue look on it.