Issues connecting a Panny G25 to an HP Pavilion DM3-1044nr via HDMI

[scootermaster]

It's weird.

It looks all washed out and like crap on the Panny. Sorta like if you booted windows back in the day in 256 color mode. Butttttt, when you close the lid to the laptop, it clears up for an instant (looks right) and then, of course, the laptop goes to sleep and everything goes blank.

This also happens right at boot...things look good, and then boom, back to crap.

My guess is something involving HDCP or the HDMI handshake. Or maybe the cable is bad?

Any ideas for settings, etc that'll clear this up? Right now the laptop is pretty much her only content source, so otherwise she just has a 50" paperweight.

 

[Anubis]

whats the laptop? can it drive actually drive a 2nd display at 1080P? if its running integrated graphics there may be a setting to help

 

[scootermaster]

whats the laptop? can it drive actually drive a 2nd display at 1080P? if its running integrated graphics there may be a setting to help

The model is listed in the title. And I think the graphics card will push 1080p. It shows up in the rez selection screen. For extended desktop only since mirroring won't work as the main display won't go that high.

Even still, it seemed more an issue of color depth than resolution.

 

[scootermaster]

Updated the driver, and tinkered with the "HD size" setting (I think) and everything is hunky dorey!

Only weird thing is, in Windows 7 Media Center, the entire rightmost line of pixels (seemingly) is lit up. So it's like there's a white boarder around the right vertical side of the rectangle that makes up the screen. Not sure what that's about, but it's only really noticeable in the menus.

 

[JoeBleed]

see if you tv has a screen fit option under the different sizing options. 4:3, 16:9 zoomX, screen fit.

 

[Anubis]

Updated the driver, and tinkered with the "HD size" setting (I think) and everything is hunky dorey!

Only weird thing is, in Windows 7 Media Center, the entire rightmost line of pixels (seemingly) is lit up. So it's like there's a white boarder around the right vertical side of the rectangle that makes up the screen. Not sure what that's about, but it's only really noticeable in the menus.

sounds like an over-scan issue

 

[scootermaster]

sounds like an over-scan issue

Alllllllllrighty. How might one go about fixing that? I know other HTPC programs often have a settings screen where you can center/align the screen, but I didn't have time to check if WMC had something similar.

 

[Anubis]

IIRC its normally done through the video cards output settings but im no expect on HTPC type stuff