Got HDMI Cable, Now colors are wrong

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I have a Westy LVM-47w1 and I was running it with a DVI cable, but today I got a HDMI cable and hooked it up. Now website colors are off. Sites that I regularly visit and I know their colors by heart are now different. I've been playing with the monitors color settings and my 9800GX2 video card that is going out to it and for the life of me I can't get the colors back to what the DVI cable could do.

My main problem is light grays are washed out and are instead white.

I thought HDMI should have given me better colors or no difference at all. I also design websites so exact colors are pretty important, but I never had this problem after I played with the color settings for a bit.

Does anybody have any ideas for me? Are there color profiles that I can load that will help me correct this problem?

Please help!

P.S. The DVI cable wasn't mine and it was a 20 footer and that's why I switched to my own 2 meter HDMI cable. I really didn't want to go back to the DVI cable if at all possible.

And yes, I have tried playing around in the nVidia color control panel and tried their wizard.
 
Is it a panel difference? What was your old monitor? That sounds like my experience whenever I move from an IPS monitor to a TN one.
 
It's the same monitor. The only thing that has changed was that I went from a DVI port on my monitor and same video card to the HDMI port on that same monitor and same video card.
 
Why in gods name would you do that.

DVI is HDMI without audio. Yes, HDMI has a higher theoretical bandwidth but that matters exactly NIL on a computer monitor in their current state. Return the HDMI cable. It offers no advantages other then integrated sound, which I doubt really benefits you if its a computer monitor you're connecting to.
 
DVI and HDMI carry the same video signal, but many monitors with both ports behave differently on each port. This sounds like a full-range (0-255) vs. limited-range (16-235) RGB issue. Your monitor seems to be assuming limited-range RGB for the HDMI port, while the video card is sending full-range RGB. This means anything less than #101010 will be black, and anything more than #EBEBEB will be white. If there isn't a setting in the monitor to get full-range RGB, then you're better off using DVI to avoid this mess. The only way to fix this through the graphics card is to squeeze the full range of colors into the limited range, which isn't ideal because then shades are lost.
 
Stick to DVI.

I have seen this issue on some monitors from other manufacturers where the DVI has full range RGB color and the HDMI has limited range. Having tested this with Xbox 360 and PS3 over HDMI and HDMI to DVI, the monitors show sever dark detail loss/black crush and cannot resolve anything lower than RGB at 16, 16, 16 over the HDMI connection, while over DVI, they resolve everything.

The only other choice is trying to artificially try and limit the colors from your video card.

Regards,

10e

Gutspiller said:
I have a Westy LVM-47w1 and I was running it with a DVI cable, but today I got a HDMI cable and hooked it up. Now website colors are off. Sites that I regularly visit and I know their colors by heart are now different. I've been playing with the monitors color settings and my 9800GX2 video card that is going out to it and for the life of me I can't get the colors back to what the DVI cable could do.

My main problem is light grays are washed out and are instead white.

I thought HDMI should have given me better colors or no difference at all. I also design websites so exact colors are pretty important, but I never had this problem after I played with the color settings for a bit.

Does anybody have any ideas for me? Are there color profiles that I can load that will help me correct this problem?

Please help!

P.S. The DVI cable wasn't mine and it was a 20 footer and that's why I switched to my own 2 meter HDMI cable. I really didn't want to go back to the DVI cable if at all possible.

And yes, I have tried playing around in the nVidia color control panel and tried their wizard.
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taylorwilsdon said:
Why in gods name would you do that.

DVI is HDMI without audio. Yes, HDMI has a higher theoretical bandwidth but that matters exactly NIL on a computer monitor in their current state. Return the HDMI cable. It offers no advantages other then integrated sound, which I doubt really benefits you if its a computer monitor you're connecting to.
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Thanks for the replies. I've gone back to the DVI cable. As I had mentioned in my first post, the DVI cable wasn't mine. I was trying to use my own cable and give the cable back. You know, sorta because it's borrowing and not taking. :p Sheesh read the first post better.
 
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