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Re:Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years by dogleash on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:17AM (#32638559)
>there's even porches and overscan included in the signal

Well, I guess this explains some of my "why the fuck is this even an option" when trying to make a TV just display the signal as it was received.

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Re:Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years by p_l on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:27AM (#32638707)
Yeah, the simplest possible circuitry for driving a flat panel TV from HDMI (except the HDCP block, which AFAIK can be placed inline before the display logic) would be to declare the 720i/p capability and then just... pump the data straight onto display interface with some buffers here and there meaning to drop the porches, driven all by HSync/VSync signal recovered from the HDMI clock. :V
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Re:Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years by exmadscientist on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:42PM (#32655522)
Incidentally, this is why DisplayPort is always preferable to HDMI if you have the choice. HDMI is kind of a stupid specification.
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