Re: looking for video card with best HDMI picture

September 2, 2010 at 11:34 pm #651

[quote=”Chasseur”]
WOW!
Now I have a picture that looks almost like the original source from my HD-DVR.

I turned off most of the processing (noise reduction, edge, etc.). But the most important was to set Limited RGB (16 to 235) instead of Full RGB (0-255). Now the blacks are black and the whites are white.

The last thing: I’m not able to set the resolution to native 1360×768 60Hz. I’m now configured at 1280×720 60HZ with some overscan. CCC offers 1360×768 30 Hz, but not 60 Hz…

It was available via DVI, but not with HDMI…
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Years ago I bought my son a 37″ HP LCD, and it only had component and HDMI inputs. I connected his PC to it with a DVI-to-HDMI cable. I could only set the resolution at 1280 x 720 even though the “MAX supported resolution” was 1360 x 768. It was explained to me on here something about only being able to do 1280 x 720 through HDMI. The card he had at the time was a Geforce FX5700 so I had to live with the overscan, but since I went to an x1800xt and now a 8800GS, I can adjust the screen position to where everything fits perfectly. It lowers the resolution to something crazy (like 11xx by 6xx), but at least I can see everything on the screen now.