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Jenko_Sport

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24th Jun 10 at 21:06

Im using this for my monitor and was curious if you can download drivers to get the best resolution ect.

Jenko_Sport

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29th Jun 10 at 07:01

Anyone?

Aaron

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29th Jun 10 at 07:11

Probably not.

My samsung at home will only support 1024 x 768

John

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29th Jun 10 at 07:48

Shouldn't need drivers, if the graphics card can do it it should output at whatever the native res is, 720 or 1080p.

Brett

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29th Jun 10 at 08:10

John's right. Assuming your TV is full HD, then it'll be your graphics card that is the bottle neck. Mine works fine at max res.

Aaron

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29th Jun 10 at 08:12

I think the issue here is that the TV isn't full HD...just like mine. I've "maxed out" the res settings in the dispaly properties...and the best i'm offered is 1024x768.

[Edited on 29-06-2010 by Aaron]

Brett

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29th Jun 10 at 08:17

But don't computers usually allow you to set the highest res the graphics card will go to regardless of the monitor? That's why it asks if it displays properly afterwards? Then again, I always just have mine setup with the standard monitor drivers that it uses by default.

1080 is 1920x1080 iirc and that TV jenko listed only does 1366 x 768 so that's probably the problem.

John

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29th Jun 10 at 08:18

Older TV's might only support certain resolutions over certain inputs.

Anything within the past couple of years 'should' support whatever the PC can put out. (up to it's native resolution, anything over this it would have to downscale even if it accepted it)

Does your TV have a max resolution of 1024x768 Aaron? A plasma by any chance?

[Edited on 29-06-2010 by John]

Steve

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29th Jun 10 at 08:20

yep a lot of "early" HD TV's although they can do 720 over component or hdmi will only output 1024x768 over VGA in

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29th Jun 10 at 08:50

Using a tv for a monitor is a bit crap. 1080p for a PC monitor isn't that impressive.

John

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29th Jun 10 at 09:10

Although you get monitors of higher resolutions, 1920x1080 is still quite high for a PC, the problem comes with TV's not normally being as high quality as monitors and the distance you have to sit back from a larger screen.

Aaron

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29th Jun 10 at 09:44

TBH, i only use mine as a media centre to watch films...so it works well.

Using it as an actual monitor in windows is rather pish.

Aaron

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29th Jun 10 at 09:47

quote:
Originally posted by John
Does your TV have a max resolution of 1024x768 Aaron? A plasma by any chance?
[Edited on 29-06-2010 by John]

You know what, i dont even know if its an LCD or an Plasma. I THINK its an LCD, but its one of the early ish Samsung black ones...i bought it near enough 3 years ago.

And yeah, the max i can get out of the TV is 1024x768. The graphics card in the media centre lets me select a much higher one...but when i do, i just get a black screen as the TV has said "lol'z" at me.

Gary

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29th Jun 10 at 10:02

quote:
Originally posted by Aaron

quote:
Originally posted by John
Does your TV have a max resolution of 1024x768 Aaron? A plasma by any chance?
[Edited on 29-06-2010 by John]

You know what, i dont even know if its an LCD or an Plasma. I THINK its an LCD, but its one of the early ish Samsung black ones...i bought it near enough 3 years ago.

And yeah, the max i can get out of the TV is 1024x768. The graphics card in the media centre lets me select a much higher one...but when i do, i just get a black screen as the TV has said "lol'z" at me.

How are you connecting to the TV?

If its via a VGA it should be ok. Whittie off here used to connect to my Samsung plasma with one and it was ok, picture quality wasnt amazing iirc. PM him to see how he set it up.

Gary

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29th Jun 10 at 10:04

another thought.

If your using the windows graphiocs driver try using the manufacturers driver (ATI for example) I used that to puyt my laptop thru a projector and quality was spot on (using VGA)

John

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29th Jun 10 at 10:18

If the max resolution of the TV is 1024x768 that's the problem, anything higher, if it displays at all, won't look right.

Aaron

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29th Jun 10 at 10:21

I'm connecting to my TV using VGA.

TBH, i'm happy with what i've got. The quality of the films i watch are great, and when i need to use Windows, its nice and big