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Hello everyone,

I have a week-old 22" 1080P television (Insignia Advanced NS-L22X-10A) that I have been using in place of my Sceptre 1080p monitor that has horrendous problems with reds/oranges. Anyway, I had been using VGA + PC Audio for the last week, but I didn't like the signal noise and text ghosting coming in through VGA. So, I broke out a 10ft HDMI cable (came with Verizon FIOS HD box, seems fairly thick), found my PNY DVI-HDMI adapter for my 9800 GT, and gerryrigged an S/PDIF cable from my SC to my videocard. Problem is, everything on-screen seems blocky/jagged, the lowercase letters P and R have fat stems, some text in TF2 Chat has black shadowing around it, white halos around stuff etc. (VGA seemed smooth and good). What gives?
 
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Could be something wrong with the cable. You can also try to play around with the output options in nvidia control panel. Don't remember were the output options is, but when I had a similar problem a new cable fixed it.
 
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Alright, I'll try to get a new cable then. I played with NV Control Panel to no avail.
 

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I would say its due to the cable. I had a massive VGA cable that caused ghosting, tested a shorter one, perfect picture quality. This could be the problem with your HDMI cable :( Try another, smaller one ;)

Ive had a bit of trouble with the 6ft HDMI cable that I connect my PS3 to my LCD TV with. I sometimes have to 'wiggle' it to get the signal. Obviously I have a break-up somewhere :(
 
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