Well, I finally made the leap from VGA to HDMI and, I must say, the sound quality seems to be pretty awesome (not sure if it’s just these speakers or the cable ). However, when I plugged the HDMI cable into the computer and my HP 2159m, the screen looked a bit odd. There was a black border around the entire image, and all text looked really fuzzy. I found out that this is a setting enabled by ATI drivers (I’m using an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570). To remedy the situation:

1. Open Catalyst Control Center (the drivers I had from Windows Update did not include this, so I had to download the full driver package from Dell);
2. Click Graphics in the top left corner and choose Desktops & Displays.
3. Click the triangle in the top right hand corner next to your display (use the triangles at the bottom, not the ones on the numbered displays) and choose Configure.
4. Click the Scaling Options tab and drag the slider to 0%. You’ll see the changes take effect as soon as you move the slider.

Thanks heaps to xpmediacentre.com.au for the tip.

In other news, whilst working on Time Sheet 2010, I discovered something interesting. When adding an image list, even after adjusting the colour depth to 32-bit, I found the images displayed within the image list would always appear jagged and rough around the edges, and the colours would never really look like 32-bit. So, by pure coincidence, I discovered that by removing all images from the image list and adding them back in, the issue was resolved! Hopefully someone else finds this little tip handy too. Never mind, it doesn’t seem to work.

Steven