A good friend of mine was trying to get rid of a well taken care of Samsung 28" monitor for a great price. ($60)
I had to buy a display port because my GPU for some reason only has 2 DVI slots, 1 HDMI and 1 display port. I had read up that the Display port would actually be better overall along with my other monitor having HDMI, something about it running more optimal. But I noticed the text is blurry on my Samsung. Now my main display is actually a brand new Sony Bravia 32", an actual TV, not a monitor.
For whatever reason, my PS4 gets full 1080p and looks fantastic on the Sony TV, but when I hook my PC up... if I dare set the resolution to 1080, the font looks absolutely awful and makes everything else look unreadable. I have to set it to it's "recommended" 1360 x 768, which in contrast looks absolutely amazing and colorful compared to hooking my PC up alone to the Samsung monitor, which when hooked up alone, does look very crisp and clear but the color looks almost washed out compared to the Bravia. So obviously, this blur is being caused when I have both monitors hooked up.
TL;DR Using a Display Port to HDMI adapter for my monitors makes the font on my secondary look very blurry and ugly. Is it because both resolutions are not set identical? This is so bizarre. I could have sworn I have used two completely different monitors before with different res's and they both didn't suffer any loss. I have a feeling it also might be because I am using both, an actual computer monitor, and an HDTV w/ speakers. But hopefully I am wrong, and you geniuses will pull me out of this.
I ended up returning the display port to HDMI adapter, getting my cash back so I could try something else. Today I ordered a DVI cable instead, and hopefully that will retain that crisp display. Either way this isn't a huge deal considering I will mostly be using that Samsung to watch Netflix, fight cards, while I do random shit in FF14 or something mindlessly boring in a game like grinding, or just to keep chats open with friends.
and before people start asking what kind of friend sold it to me, he's a long time friend that would not rip me off in any way. Besides, like I said earlier, the monitor looks fantastic when you hook it up alone, just... my only complaint is that the colors cannot compare to a brand new TV, but that's to be expected from a used one. I will definitely try to tweak the color settings when my DVI cable gets here.