Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 25/07/2020 18:59, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
David Wade wrote:
but I ended up using it between my BT YouView box (HDMI out) and my TV
HDMI In because the TV was not happy with HDMI from the YouView box.
Dave

TVs can be very fussy about the resolutions etc PCs use.


But YouView HDMI not working into a HDMI TV sounds like a major failing
of the YouView box.

DW, Which model number is it?


But TVs have strange dining habits.

Some of the ports would be defined, such that they
only work with HD (1920x1080) or SD (1280x720) perhaps.
These are ports intended to be connected to set-top DVD players,
set-top tuner boxes, maybe the HDMI output of a camcorder.

Whereas when the user manual defines a single "PC Input Port",
that's a multisync port and does 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768,
1440x900, and all sorts of other "usual" values.

One other weirdness, is the "PC Input Port" at one time,
absolutely refused to run native. If the panel was 1920x1080,
the "PC Input Port" resolutions might go 1280x1024, 1440x900,
1600x1200 and magically, 1920x1080 was *not* supported. It
took later large TV sets before, finally, native resolution
was supported on "PC Input Port", and then you could read
text on the screen.

If you plugged your set-top BluRay player into the PC Input Port,
it might well give a black screen. And it's set up that way,
just to be perverse. There's no reasoning with these choices
they make.

Paul