07-25-2013, 01:21 PM
silvarios wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
1) Neither of those resolutions (1360 x 768 or 1920 x 1080) is an option in the Displays preferences
2) I tried adjusting the sharpness, it unfortunately just made stuff even more fuzzy!
As mentioned by srf1957, your display is showing up as a TV, not a monitor. Does your TV have a setting for changing modes? If I select PC on my Samsung TV/monitor, suddenly the Mac knows how to communicate properly.
Good thought ... I'll try that next. (It'd not have occurred to me to set it for "PC", for obvious reasons...) When everyone was mentioning "mode", I was more thinking aspect ratio... changing that, has not helped. Also, I'd had it set for "HDMI", since the Mini is connecting by HDMI... I would have assumed that "PC" is for the VGA port.
silvarios wrote: [quote=PeterB]Yes, I could use either an HDMI to VGA or Lightning to VGA, but I'd assume that both of those would give poorer quality video than what HDMI is supposed to be capable of. Also, it's kind of ridiculous to be doing that, when there are HDMI ports on both the Mini and the TV...
You can't use a passive cable for HDMI to VGA. Thunderbolt to VGA is the other cable option.
Yes, and that's how I currently have a second monitor attached to the Mini (for which the picture is fine).
PeterB wrote: Edit: could this be an OS problem? I found this old post of Black's...: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-750190
Could be. I don't run Mountain Lion. I though Apple had fixed the problem with 10.6.8, but who knows?
I mentioned the OS issue because in the previous thread, you'd mentioned that Apple had messed up HDMI with an OS update. That's a little disturbing...