{"id":148,"date":"2014-03-01T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-08-31T20:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T20:03:44","slug":"how-to-fix-terrible-washed-out-colors-on-macbook-air-2012-2013-connected-to-external-screen-via-hdmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-terrible-washed-out-colors-on-macbook-air-2012-2013-connected-to-external-screen-via-hdmi\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix terrible washed out colors on Macbook Air 2012-2013 connected to external screen via HDMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had this problem with my macbook air 2012. The colors were very washed out and the contrast ratio was completely off. I tried calibrating the external monitor, but to no avail. I was using the moshi mini displayport to HDMI adapter (purchased from the Apple store). It turns out this is a driver error on Apple&#8217;s part that has still not been corrected as of August 2013. Hundreds of people report the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.likelyanswers.com\/28669099\/Horrible-Colors-On-External-Monitor-Using-Macbook-Air2012-With-Mini-Dp-To-Hdmi\">color problem<\/a>. The only way to fix it is to use a mini displayport to dvi connector. You can get this one for $5-$10:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=cla0d-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B003OBXHPC\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this problem with my macbook air 2012. The colors were very washed out and the contrast ratio was completely off. I tried calibrating the external monitor, but to no avail. I was using the moshi mini displayport to HDMI adapter (purchased from the Apple store). It turns out this is a driver error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}