Mirror Mode quality??

[kach474]

I bought a HDMI cord from Sams club and it works but the quality is absolutly terrible. Tried all formats on the phone and they are all grainy and blocky. Is that the way it is or is the cord a issue because its aftermarket??

 

[trainplane3]

The cable shouldn't matter. If the HDMI cable was bad, it wouldn't work at all.

 

[BasPilot]

It is true that a poor cable will give poor quality, but it is more due to speed of transmission through the cable and the fuzziness on screen movement then becomes.

My quality is excellent t on my 1080 TV. 42 inch.... I have a 720 that I have not tried it on. But I am extremely happy with what quality it gets.

 

[kach474]

That makes sense. My TV is a 55" 1080 and the quality is good. I also noticed that the quality on the phone its self is so so. I actually liked the quality on my BB storm better. Maybe there is a prob with the phone. I may call tech support. Thanks

 

[kach474]

I asked the same question on Motorola's website and some tech stated that I needed to get a Motorola HDMI cord. I got one and same issue. I have tried more formats and all the same. Quality ok to good on phone but the TV is really bad. You can actually see the square blocks that make up the picture. I have noticed that the videos actually on my sd card are better but the movies being streamed on Zumocast are the worst. Movies streamed on netflix are better then Zumocast but worst then files on the SD card. Also movies streamed on Zumocast also has a tapping sound in the audio background.

Ive talked to Motorola a few times about this and the 3G issues. They always seem to have the same attitude, no thats normal or yes there is a prob deal with it.

 

[JStrider]

HDMI is a digital signal, you either get perfect, or nothing, the only time cable quality comes into play is with particularly long distances, or weak sources.

the bad picture yall are getting is probably due to the video source, streaming video... streaming video, even at HD resolutions is compressed, on a big screen artifacts from this streaming becomes much more noticible.

try downloading a high quality HD 1080 resolution AVI video, copy it to your bionic, and then play it through the HDMI cable, I bet it will look much better.

 

[anon(392870)]

Yes, noticed this with Netflix as well...

Going to try HBOGo and see if that goes any better (I think you need to be rooted to get it to play on TV since I got an error message whenever I tried it non-rooted, but maybe its the HBOGo app. We'll see)