MacMini with HDTV has colors bleed over in specific areas of the screen

I recently moved my MacMini from a position as an HTPC to an office. I connected it to a 27" Vizio TV via HDMI. I know this may not be a perfect solution but it works for me right now and it was equipment that I already had on hand.


Now my issue is that on specific areas of the screen I have issues with random colors bleeding over. These areas move around with the windows, they are not issues with the actual display being discolored. For example, next the the green full screen button on the top of the window I have a red splotch that extends to the minimize button. This appears on the same location on every window I have open regardless of its location on the screen. There is also some weirdness with regards to the iTunes icon on the dock. I even screenshotted the trouble area and sent it to my phone and of course if doesn't show up. But when I look at the screenshot again on the computer it does show up. Either the computer or the TV has some issue displaying this section of the graphics correctly. It may seem like a small thing but it is annoying. Has anyone else seen an issue like this?User uploaded file

Posted on Nov 9, 2014 8:29 AM

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Nov 9, 2014 9:23 PM in response to joshlaymon

I conducted some new research this evening. I took a screenshot of the window close, minimize, and full screen button. I put that in pixelmator and as i expected i could still see the pink area to the left of the green button in the screenshot. i tried zooming in so i could see the problem better but when i zoomed any at all the problem went away, it looked perfectly fine. zoom back to 100% and the artifact came back. i deleted the yellow button from the picture and there was no change. when i erased the green button it went away. the problem seems to be stemming from the green button specifically. i know that sounds crazy but its what i am seeing. been working on computers my whole life and i have never seen anything like it. i tried recreating something similar sized in the same color of green and had no success duplicating the issue. this is totally crazy.

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