I feel your pain - for the last 6 years I too have been looking at EDIDs and monitors, and despairing. Not everyday, luckily, but particularly bad examples crop up every few months. One time IT bought a batch of HP monitors with DVI-I sockets. These presented an analogue EDID if it thought the source was analogue, and a digital EDID if it thought the source was digital, and flip-flopped between the two when the source, and cable, could do both.
What should the source do if the EDID is corrupt, or lies, or both lies and is corrupt yet the checksum bytes are "correct"?
HDMI and DVI EDIDs tend to be different because of the audio descriptors in the HDMI EDID extention (of course nothing prevents audio packets being transmitted over DVI because it is all the same signalling). DVI monitors also tend not to advertise TV resolutions and refresh rates (50Hz, anyone?), while as noted HDMI is very TV focused.
Another rage inducing Samsung TV cropped and scaled the HDMI source in every mode (yes, even at 640x480 it didn't display every pixel), and behaved perfectly normally when using the VGA or DVI inputs.
To counter the blurries have you noticed TVs often apply sharpening to the image too? I first saw this when a TV edge enhanced all the JPEG artefacts in my desktop background image.
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What should the source do if the EDID is corrupt, or lies, or both lies and is corrupt yet the checksum bytes are "correct"?
HDMI and DVI EDIDs tend to be different because of the audio descriptors in the HDMI EDID extention (of course nothing prevents audio packets being transmitted over DVI because it is all the same signalling). DVI monitors also tend not to advertise TV resolutions and refresh rates (50Hz, anyone?), while as noted HDMI is very TV focused.
Another rage inducing Samsung TV cropped and scaled the HDMI source in every mode (yes, even at 640x480 it didn't display every pixel), and behaved perfectly normally when using the VGA or DVI inputs.
To counter the blurries have you noticed TVs often apply sharpening to the image too? I first saw this when a TV edge enhanced all the JPEG artefacts in my desktop background image.