HD TV monitor, picture is better with VGA than HDMI?

[paddyb]

I’m trying to set up an LG Flatron M2280D Monitor TV with my PC and am having problems getting a decent picture via HDMI.

I have previously been using to quite old 4:3 panels, one connected by VGA, the other by DVI. I want to replace one of them with the LG, but when I connected it via HDMI, the picture produced didn’t seem very sharp, the older monitor was much better. I then tried connecting the LG via VGA and the picture was much better, though I still think it could be improved upon.

This seems confusing to me, surely the digital connection should be sharper? I now also tried connecting via DVI and used different cables and I’m still getting the same results, though now the picture size has also shrunk by about an inch around the edge! I’ve looked at display settings (on PC and TV), have disconnected the second display, checked display adaptor drivers (ATI Radeon 4300) but nothing makes any difference.

Am I missing something here?

 

[paddyb]

Thanks for your reply.

I'd already found the PC input setting. It did improve things, but not much. Text is still blurry. There is a "Just Scan" option under Aspect Ratio, but it is greyed out. I can't find any other options on the TV and I've gone through most of the Windows display settings. Are there any other Windows settings I should look at?

 

[paddyb]

Just to be absolutely clear, have you definitely set your video card to output at the panel's 1920x1080 native resolution? (Just Scan probably won't work if the display resolution and the incoming signal are not the same).

In Advanced Display Settings in Windows I've set it to 1920x1080, is this what you mean? I can't find any way to directly configure the graphics card.

 

[paddyb]

Ok, the registry fix seemed to do the trick! Thanks very much for your help with this, I would never have worked out what to even google without your help. I can't believe how difficult this was!