{"id":17454,"date":"2017-03-17T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17454"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:32:31","slug":"making-an-external-display-a-monitor-not-a-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/making-an-external-display-a-monitor-not-a-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Making an External Display a Monitor, Not a TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2017\/03\/16\/macbook-pros-and-external-displays\/\">Erica Sadun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2017\/03\/16\/macbook-pros-and-external-displays\/\"><p>What I didn&rsquo;t expect was how <em>awful<\/em> the text looked on it. I hooked up the monitor to the MBP using my Apple TV HDMI cable. The text was unreadable. I use similar TV-style monitors for my main system and they display text just fine. However, I&rsquo;m using normal display ports and cables for my mini. This is the first time I&rsquo;ve gone HDMI direct.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>All the searches lead to this <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/bastibense\/6549835\">ruby script<\/a>. The script builds a display override file containing a vendor and product ID with 4:4:4 RGB color support. The trick lies in getting macOS to install, read, and use it properly. That&rsquo;s because you can&rsquo;t install the file directly to \/System\/Library\/Displays\/Contents\/Resources\/Overrides\/ in modern macOS. Instead, you have to disable &ldquo;rootless&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Sadun: What I didn&rsquo;t expect was how awful the text looked on it. I hooked up the monitor to the MBP using my Apple TV HDMI cable. The text was unreadable. I use similar TV-style monitors for my main system and they display text just fine. However, I&rsquo;m using normal display ports and cables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[838,1035,30,100,1381,1235],"class_list":["post-17454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-display","tag-hdmi","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-12","tag-system-integrity-protection"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17455,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}