Mac Mini HDMI output gives bad resolution on external 1920x1200 external monitor

Guys, so sorry that we are at the end of Jan 2013 and they didn't solve it.

It's a huge deception buying this mac mini late 2012 although the bad reviews of the new graphic card, just because Apple it's suppose to be the best company producing computers...

Obviously it is good, but making the people think they make good products... I bought this mac mini late 2013 2.6 i7 to test how is having your own mac and it have been a huge disapointment. If mac doesn't make their machines work at least to the standards and also they try to look like they don't have idea of any of this issues... what do we have? Just a nice designed small box?

I have to say that working in a company with final cut pro x in an iMac 27'' that crash at least once every two days and a mac mini with a HDMI port that doesn't work as it should be, can make people think that it is not worth the money that is asked for. Also reading some comments of costumer saying that the costumer service said they didn't heard about the HDMI issue can make you think this company is not how they introduce itself; it's just another dodgy company who wants more money as possible and taking the least responsability for their actions.

Managing with this issue I really feel like I have an Ubuntu OS... (actually I never had such a problem with Ubuntu or Windows)

My setup mac mini 2.3 i7 with the Intel HD 4000 Graphics with HDMI output to 24" Viewsonic. It looked like crap out of the box with fuzzy text and washed-colors similar to the complaints previous. I went ahead and used the Display Calibration app and followed the instructions to gradually fix the contrast and gamma and color shifts. Now it looks awesome. Go ahead and choose the expert mode and follow through with the process. I have a 10x improvement in text anti-aliasing and color.

I had the same issue with my Westinghouse 26" monitor (L2610NW). The display settings only went up to 1920x1080. (This is on my Jan 2013 27" iMac.)

Eventually, after switching to the DisplayPort -> VGA adapter, and randomly unplugging and plugging in the adapter several times, the iMac finally decided to start recognizing the correct setting.

I don't know if the DisplayPort -> HDMI connector is allowed to recognize this resolution, but in any case I was totally unable to make the HDMI connector connect at 1920x1200. So I am using the VGA connector for now.

This is a solution for one HDMI cable connecting a Mac Mini Intel Core i7 to a Samsung television: 1920 x 1080 (ie 1080p or 1080i).

As I discovered:

Mac mini HDMI output → DVI convertor → TV DVI input

works fine, but

Mac mini HDMI output → TV HDMI input

produces a badly pixilated output and the vertical resolution was wrong with the top & bottom chopped off screen.

Using the Samsung TV remote, I pressed the TV menu button, selected picture settings and scrolled down to Screen Adjustment. I selected the "selected screen size" option which fixed the resolution problem: all the screen was viewable and the pixels were in the right place.

Still, the pixels looked wrong: for example, black text was "etched" and surrounded by a bright outline.

From picture settings, I selected the sharpness and reduced it to zero. Before my eyes, the image returned to the HDMI → DVI clarity I had enjoyed earlier.

Hope this works for you too (it took me 6 months to solve it!).

I've got an HP 2311x as well on a mini mac. HDMI to HDMI was slightly fuzzy. All you need to do as said before is turn the overscan off on the monitor by going into the menu on the monitor.

Menu - Image Control - Custom Scaling - Overscan - Off

If still a bit fuzzy then then maybe like me you had tried adjusting the Display on the System Settings on the Mac menu. So go back into this and make sure you have selected Best For Display and turned off the Overscan.

System Settings - Best For Display - Underscan Off

Wonderful new screen!

Thanks everyone

Thanks man! (Treffibug)

Turning down the Sharpness setting of my Philips 8404 46 inch tv to zero made the crappy text go normal! It changed before my eyes just as you said! It made me search for two days. You made me find it! Many, many thanks.

What stays is the whole screen going pink every ones in a while?

TF

Mac mini 2011 i5

I found in my case that both my dell displays made in 2010 give the same problem as the earlier posts.

But either of my two 2012 models worked perfectly on HDMI to HDMI as well as Mini Displayport to HDMI.

Just an update. Using the supplied HDMI to DVI seems to have fixed the problems. Haven't had a problem at start up or after waking the computer up from sleeping.

You don't want 1080 anything. Feeding a 1080 image to a 1920x1200 display is why the image is blurred.

Is 1920x1200 not offered to you by the mini?

Is that picture supposed to be helpful? You're not even putting in 1200 like you want.

What does System Preferences, Displays look like?