[Mediaman_12]

I have upgraded my mum from my ageing Sawtooth G4 to a new Mac Mini (450mhz isn't going to cut it these days no matter how much ram you throw at it).
One thing I am not so impressed with is the display on the LCD monitor. Ok so this was cheap and uses a SVGA cable not DIVI, so it's not a digital display. But the picture was fine on the old G4 (on which I upgraded the video card ?? at some time to one with both SVGA and DIVI sockets)
but now on the Mini, using the supplied DIVI/SVGA adapter, it's not so good, with 'echoes' of the edges/and menu-bar items visible (like an overly compressed Jpeg).
Having just got the mini I don't really want to get a new (100% Digital) panel. has anyone else seen this, and an idea of a possible solution.
The odd thing I noticed is you can 'rotate' the display on the Mini, but not on my 20" Intel iMac.

[imitchellg5]

What resolution are you running it at and what is the recommended resolution for the monitor?

[mduell]

The VGA LCDs I've used always seemed blurry.

[hookem2oo7]

i have a vga lcd and it seemed blurry until i used LCDTune (i think that is what it's called) to adjust the phase setting...

[chipchen]

Make sure you're using the LCD at it's "native resolution"... anything other than what it was made for, will be blurry.

[tooki]

Originally Posted by Mediaman_12

I have upgraded my mum from my ageing Sawtooth G4 to a new Mac Mini (450mhz isn't going to cut it these days no matter how much ram you throw at it).
One thing I am not so impressed with is the display on the LCD monitor. Ok so this was cheap and uses a SVGA cable not DIVI, so it's not a digital display. But the picture was fine on the old G4 (on which I upgraded the video card ?? at some time to one with both SVGA and DIVI sockets)
but now on the Mini, using the supplied DIVI/SVGA adapter, it's not so good, with 'echoes' of the edges/and menu-bar items visible (like an overly compressed Jpeg).
Having just got the mini I don't really want to get a new (100% Digital) panel. has anyone else seen this, and an idea of a possible solution.

For one thing, have you made sure to do an auto-adjustment on the monitor again? If it's not sharp, try doing it again; sometimes the display won't get it quite right every time (but once it's got it, it'll remember it).

Other than that, see if a better VGA cable helps. Ghosting is a typical effect of a cheap cable (or an excessively long one, though that's not the case here). Perhaps a cheap cable alone wasn't enough to cause problems, but the cheap cable and the adapter is.

tooki

[Mediaman_12]

It could be the cable, as it is long'ish (maybe 4/5 feet, the Mini sits in a shelf under the built in desk). and it was one out of the draw that I have had for ages. I will get a high quality cable and see if that fixes it.
What's this 'auto-ajustment'? and is 'LCDTune' an application?

[Ice-Tea]

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

What resolution are you running it at and what is the recommended resolution for the monitor?

Most important post in this thread

Make sure you run your monitor at native resolution

[Mediaman_12]

Originally Posted by Ice-Tea

Most important post in this thread

Make sure you run your monitor at native resolution

This suggestion isn't going to go down well if I have to change it. by a too large amount (higher or lower) she has had the same (aprox) resolution since I got an Orange iMac to replace the garbage PC she was using.
Ghosting is probably a better description than blurry If I think about it, so I think tooki's likely to have hit the nail on the head.

[hookem2oo7]

LCDTest 1.1 - VersionTracker

sorry, it was called LCD Test, not tune

[Mediaman_12]

Well The new cable sorted it. The cheap one I had found in the draw, didn't have those round lumps on the cable ether, I guess they do do something.