Hmmmm... HDMI to TV looks like crap. VGA looks great. HUH?

[KDOG]

I recently hooked up my main comp to my Vizio 37" LCD HDTV and no matter where I had the settings, it looked like crap and the audio was terrible. I became curious so I hooked up my Dell Inspiron to it via VGA and ran a simple audio input cable and WOW. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. I don't get it. I have a Radeon 4670 btw. However my Sony Blu-Ray player hooked up via the same HDMI cable looks and sounds spectacular. So its gotta be the video card. I'm just surprised, you would think a GRAPHICS card would put out, you know, decent graphics via the HDMI if its going to have it.

 

[djnsmith7]

Lots of people, myself included, have experienced the same results with HDMI. If you search around, you'll see there are 2 or 3 threads going right now. I have to go back & forth between HDMI & VGA + Toslink whenever I watch a BR movie on the PC. Kinda sucks, but I haven't found a better solution yet.