Strange colors on display
HDLink automatically prevents illegal YUV colors from being displayed on your LCD monitor
when converted to the RGB colorspace. Enabling the option Scale to view illegal YUV colors
will scale illegal YUV colors into the viewable quantizing range on an LCD monitor. This will
cause YUV SDI video to be incorrectly displayed with black colors appearing higher than
normal and white colors lower than normal. Ensure this setting is disabled after use.
This setting is available from the
and Windows.
Why doesn't my monitor display video with HDLink?
If your monitor specifications are nominally adequate for the video formats with which you work,
but your monitor does not display video from HDLink, try the preference to override the
monitor's preferred EDID settings.
Every monitor with DVI-D, HDMI or DisplayPort connections should include an EDID chip which
provides information about the attributes of the display and which video formats it should
support. HDLink interrogates the EDID chip and uses this information to present video on the
display. If the EDID information is not present or is invalid, then HDLink cannot automatically
display video correctly.
In this situation:
Connect HDLink via USB to your Mac or PC.
Launch HDLink Utility and choose
Enable the preference named "Override Monitor's Preferred EDID settings".
The Override Monitor's Preferred EDID settings can be accessed by
choosing Preferences from the HDLink Utility menu.
HDLink Utility>Preferences
HDLink Utility>Preferences
menu option in both Mac OS X
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