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DVI to HDMI cable
On 7/30/2017 10:07 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 7/30/2017 12:21 AM, lifewoutmilk wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: Due to my eyesight getting a little worse, 3 days ago I decided to buy a new 27 inch monitor to replace my LG IPS monitor which was still working great. After much browsing and checking makes and models on the internet and checking loca suppliers I decided on the Asus MX279-H which was available at Staples for $299.95. So went to their brick and mortar store to have a good look at a demo model,I would not buy a monitor without physically seeing it in operation. It looked beautiful so I bought it and took it home and installed it. I used it for a while but was not satisfied with the colour so I spent a couple days on and off trying to tweak the colour settings, but it still looked terrible, the reds were pinkish magenta and the greens were sorta lime green, blues were overpowering, it looked 10 times worse than my 9 year old LG. Finally went googling to see if I could find others with this kind of problem, in reading dozens of articles I still hadn't found anything solid but did read where one article suggested a new cable. Well I had it hooked up with a DVI to HDMI cable that came in the box. So as a last resort before taking it back as defective I grabbed an HDMI to HDMI cable from my blue-ray/TV setup and plugged it in HDMI to HDMI. Well you could imagine my elation as it came up picture and colour perfect. Now here is the question, the DVI to HDMI cable was hooked up to my video card DVI out to one of the monitor HDMI inputs. the new cable was HDMI out of video card to HDMI in of monitor. The DVI out of the video card is proven good. Is this DVI to HDMI cable able to be used as a HDMI to DVI cable or are the different cables? Or is it truly a defective cable? Thanks for your thoughts and input. Rene Sounds like it's not a cable issue, but your video card is sending different color information over DVI and HDMI. There are different ways to deal with this depnding on your video card. My wife's laptop produces terrible color output over HDMI to the television, extremely oversaturated unless you mess with the settings. https://pcmonitors.info/articles/correcting-hdmi-colour-on-nvidia-and-amd-gpus Thanks to both Paul and Lifewoutmilk for two extremely informative articles,I enjoyed reading them and learning a whole lot more about computer video. I switched cables this AM and still get same results, My Video card is an Asus EA5850 full CU so is about 7 years old, I suspect you may be right on the card sending out different video on the DVI or HDMI ports. Anyway I am now connected with a new 3 foot HDMI to HDMI cable and everything is great, perfect color and contrast, so I will leave everything alone before I break it. :-) Thanks, Rene Final follow up to the DVI to HDMI cable. Picked up a new Bidirectional DVI to HDMI cable and plugged it in DVI video card to HDMI monitor, Same crappy results, So it is not a bad cable. Retried my old LG236 monitor, Same video DVI out to monitor DVI in(it has no HDMI),And perfect results. So it has to be some type of glitch with that monitor and video card. End of story, leaving the new monitor and video card hooked up HDMI to HDMI and all ends well. Rene |
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