VGA connection to a 23" LCD HDTV looks fuzzy?

[Fraggable]

I have a 23" LCD HDTV, it's an Insignia brand TV, I think it's Best Buy's brand. I'm connecting it to my HP DV8235NR media center notebook via a VGA cable and it looks fuzzy. text looks aliased and it really looks like the resolution is set wrong. The tv's native res is 1280 X 768 which is what it's set at and I did the auto-config on the TV a few times.

I've got the TV connectoed to my desktop via DVI and it looks great. I'm wondering if this might be a bandwidth issue with the VGA cable but I didn't think that happened at this low of a res. I got the cable at Staples, it's Belkin brand and doesn't seem cheap. I wish my laptop had DVI-out.

BTW, S-video from the laptop looks bad on the TV too.

Suggestions?

 

[Roy2001]

Should not be bandwidth problem. Switch to a different VGA port (PC) and make sure you are using a high quality bulky VGA cable. VGA cable does matter!

 

[Fraggable]

Anyone want to recommend a really good VGA cable? I'll just return this one. I tried it with the cable that came with my Envision 19" wide LCD and got almost exactly the same effect.

I'm looking at this one, it claims to be a 'premium' cable but the only difference is that it has ferrite cores on the cable.

 

[Fraggable]

I found something that completely fixed this issue. My laptop has a Go7400 GPU, in the advanced settings for the display there's a tab for display mode timings. It was set to Auto-detect, it had 4 other options - General Timing Formula, Discrete Monitor Timing, Coordinated Video Timing, and Fixed Aspect Ratio Timing. I tried each one and found that it was defaulting to GTF. When changed to DMT the image gets perfectly sharp.