I enjoy my computer games, and two years ago I decided it would be best to enjoy them on a Toshiba Regza 37hl17. It is an ungodly large thing to use as a monitor, but now tragedy has befallen it. I'm not sure if there is a word for what it is doing, but it looks as though it isn't displaying in the colors needed. Where I would normally have a picture of the sky and it would transition through the different blues to give a clear picture I am now looking at a few blues and gigantic chromatic looking splotches. Lighter colors seem to go splotchy and chromatic while reds show up as pixelated grids of a few shades of red. I think it reminds me most of windows running in 256 color mode.

At first I thought it was my video card dying, as I had just purchased new ones and hooked them up to the tv via the hdmi port. I tested them on a normal old monitor and they were not the issue. I've ruled out a few issues so far, such as the power source, back-light, and other painfully obvious things and am now quite stuck on the issue.

Is this something that LCD tv's are known for? Is there a google friendly term that can be used to describe what the set is doing? I could really use any and all advice on this as I know next to nothing about this kind of television. I've tried many word combination options on google to figure out the culprit, but most results only lead me to sites that want to sell me a new Toshiba.