A few questions about my new A720

Hi everyone,
I just got myself an IdeaCentre A720 (VDT8UGE) because I love the idea of a touchscreen combined with a 27" screen and the special hinge.
For the most part it works fine and it simplified my home setup a lot (much less cables now). However it also introduces some new problems. I was wondering if anyone here has some suggestions to any of the following issues:
- The screen coloring is very yellow-greenish and there is no way of adjusting it from the screen itself. I used the nVidia control panel to correct this and it looks OK now but the coloring on the HDMI output is a bit off due to this.
- The HDMI IN is a great idea in my opinion. I plugged in my old machine (a pure gaming machine with a GTX) and it works fine. But is there a way to listen to the audio from HDMI IN? I set the source PC's audio to HDMI Out but it didn't help. Windows doesn't show me any audio source either. For now, I have connected a 3.5mm audio cable but I'm sure there's a more elegant solution to this.
- The system sometimes boots but the screen doesn't turn on. I haven't found any way to reproduce this, it just happens randomly. I suspected it might have something to do with HDMI Out (because I have it connected at all times) but I was unable to find any setting regarding this. I also tried to boot into UEFI to look for such a setting but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
- There's some weird noise coming from the built in Bluray drive when I insert a CD and it also makes some noise whenever I switch the system on. It almost sounds as if there's a disc in there but it isn't. Is this normal behavior? I'm asking because this is the first time that I have a PC with this kind of trayless optical drive.
- According to the spec sheet the camera can shoot at 720p. Is this some sort of joke? I don't want to flame here, but the camera quality is ludicrously bad. Seriously, it's not even 240p. Am I doing something wrong here? Is it just some bug in the Windows 8 camera app?
I hope someone can help on at least any one of these things.

Seems like nobody else has any of these issues but nonetheless, I'd like to keep this thread up to date if you don't mind. Hopefully this will be useful to someone in the future.
Camera
So today I called Lenovo Support (really friendly and helpful by the way!) and as for the camera, I was asked to try some other software like Skype instead of Windows 8's Camera App.
So I used VLC to show me the camera video. And guess what - it's 720p! Quality still isn't great but it's MILES ahead from what I've seen in the aforementioned Camera app. So that's one problem "found" at least. I still need to verify if Skype is affected. Perhaps this problem only affects Modern UI apps and not desktop apps.
Blank screen
The second thing I asked about was the blank screen. Unfortunately this is apparently not any known issue so the support couldn't help much but only suggest to try a factory reset. I'll hold off on that though because I spent the last three days to set everything up. I'll try to remember to remove the HDMI cable prior to switching the device on from now on and see if that helps (yes, I changed my mind - I think it's HDMI related again).
Coloring
The third and last thing I asked was about the display coloring. There's no way of "saving" the coloring mode but they are aware of this and there MIGHT someday be a patch. I wouldn't count on it though and I think there's a higher chance of my eyes simply adopting to the weird coloring at some point.
While it's surely unfortunate that some of these problems seem unsolvable, I'm still glad that there's only minor issues left now. Also the phone support was quite good and I feel confident that they'll help me if I ever have some other problem in the future.
I'd be glad if Lenovo takes all these things to heart and improves them on the next model. In my humble opinion, this is pretty much the best touchscreen AIO on the market. Oh and while you're at it, please put a USB 3.0 port to the left hand side of the display for the next model, the one on the base is barely usable if HDMI cables are plugged in.

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Originally Posted by adrockk
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