Horrible colors on external monitor using macbook air(2012) with mini dp to hdmi

I submitted a bug report about three weeks ago, and within a week Apple followed up with me. They sent me an application that captures all display parameters into a report. I ran the application and sent them the report. No word yet, but someone DID follow up with me, and the issue is still marked as open. This seems a much more reasonable route than the court system. In the meantime, I'm getting by with a DVI adapter.

The 2.0 update didn't work for me, either, but I'm still hopeful that they'll get this fixed if we can get the information to the engineers.

MacBook Air/Pro Update 2.0

No change here, my macbook air 2012 is connected to an LG LED tv, with the moshi thunderbolt to hdmi adapter and an apple branded hdmi cable from the apple store.

Colors are washed out and text is blurry/fuzzy

Geez... I was going to post that I just found the update and was hoping that this could fix our issues...

There's now a new Update for MBA and MBP that fixed it for me. Or at least I think it has. Colors and text is now pretty acceptable and the rest is probaply from my lack of calibration skill. I had to play a little bit with the monitor calibration until it looked a lot better.

My advice to you: Use the expert mode of the calibration - it works better than the n00b version^^

Hmmm Nada here.

Is your Laptop from before or after june this year?

It said the update is for MBA and MBP June 2012.

And you really have to calibrate after installing the update. Because at first I couldn't see a difference.

Yeah it's July 2012, and it's the same here after applying the update.

That's weird. Let's see what other people have to say.

My monitor is Samsung S24B350.

Hello,

The MBA & MBP 2.0 update did not work for me either.

I could tell right away just by looking at text on the screen, but I went ahead and did the full calibration just to be safe. Still no improvement. I really hope they fix this soon.

SLSK

MBA mid 2012

Moshi mini DP to HDMI adapter

ASUS VW2464 monitor

Just installed update 2.0.2 on my 2012 MBP. Still no difference.

Colors are washed out and designs in Photoshop looks horrible. I won't buy a $1k+ Apple display out of principle, even though that's most likely what they would like.

Will just continue to warn people of this issue before they go Mac shopping!

Several weeks ago, I took this problem to my local 'Apple Authorized Campus Store' since I live in a college town and there is no 'real' Apple store nearby.

The technicians took some capture data & sent it to Apple to create something they called an "accelerated report". One of the technicians is experiencing the same problem with his personal mid 2012 MBA.

I am being stubborn and refusing to spend more money for the mini DP to DVI --> DVI to HDMI workaround... but I might break down and get it.

SLSK

MBA mid 2012

Moshi mini DP to HDMI adapter

ASUS VW2464 monitor

Hello everyone,

as the Apple engineers are not reading these forums usually/regulary, the most effective way to change this issue is to call their support hotline: Call them and talk with them until you get someone who is able to send a report to the engineers (http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57). The more users are doing this the faster something will be changed. 🙂

Letterus

after calibration(expert mode) everything great

MBP 13 mid 2012 to Acer S242HL via mini DP to HDMI

OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 updates installed

Has anyone tried with an apple tv to see if we can have a 1080p display without the blurry/fuzzy text?

I only have hdmi, so to use dvi, i need DP>DVI and then DVI>back to hdmi

no idea how that works or if it carries audio

Specs:

• 11-inch, Mid 2012 MacBook Air
• Intel HD Graphics 4000 512MB
• OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006)

Using hardware calibration, the latest update has improved the colors dramatically on both the laptop display itself and through HDMI output.

Lapto LCD

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After:

Comparison:

HDMI External Monitor

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After:

Comparison:

Night and day.