multiple monitors - Bad image on a 32" FullHD TV
2014-07
kellax
I bought a 32" Full HD TV max res: 1920x1080 works really well I have it connected to my notebook via mini HDMI cable.
It's super for watching TV shows or playing games but for working it's just horrible. Like text is not as sharp also it's much bigger than on laptops screen.
For instance I will have 9px font very sharp and clear on my laptop screen but when dragged to my TV it seems as if it enlarged into 12px font also it's not that sharp. However I did not have this problem on a 24" Full HD monitor I didn't see the font difference or difference in sharpness.
I tried input settings from console to pc to cinema etc. Nothing really helps that much as well as sharpness and AA settings.
Daniel Beck
Your 32" TV has ~69 pixels per inch. A 100 pixel object on the screen will be 1.45 inches in size.
Your 24" screen has ~91 pixels per inch. A 100 pixels object on the screen will be 1.10 inches in size.
Assuming your laptop has a 1280x800 pixel 15" screen, that's ~100 pixels per inch and that same object will be 1 inch in size.
Most screens are between 90 and 110 pixels per inch today, with a clear trend towards higher PPI (often with the operating system increasing the pixel size of things to keep the size effectively the same, only sharper). Assuming your laptop screen is a bit nearer to your eyes than your 24" screen, the pixels appear to be roughly the same size to you.
But as you can see, the TV's are much larger. Assuming no greater viewing distance, you'll be more easily able to discern single pixels, as well as the strategies computers use to get rid of visual artifacts (aliasing).
TV screens are not designed for a typical computer viewing distance of ~20 inches or so. That's what e.g. the more expensive 2560x1440/27" or2560x1600/30" screens are for.
Of course, you may be able to configure your computer to reduce the size of objects (text etc.) on your TV screen to match the physical size of your other screens. However, this will not add more detail, making text of smaller sizes very difficult to read.
Deniz Zoeteman
I currently have a computer with a ASUS EAH5770 (ATi Radeon HD 5770) 1GB GDDR5 video card, and 4GB ram, 2.6 GHZ i5 processor. I just switched from a VGA (the blue one) to an HDMI cable. (Bigben Flat cable HDMI 1.3c) I use a Samsung SyncMaster 2032 MW, which has a HDMI input.
The weird thing is, that my screen is off-the-corner of the tv (so it's too wide) (1920x1080), and windows icons and text are not displaying well, though 1080p videos in YouTube are looking brilliant, just like pictures.
So i think it has something to do with Windows. I already have the ATI Catalyst Control Center with the drivers i received with my video card.
I do not currently know how to fix these problems. Do i have to reinstall Windows or so? Or is it (hopefully) easier?
coneslayer
It sounds like your TV may be configured with overscan, meaning it throws away a bit of the edges of the 1920x1080 image, and enlarges the rest to fill the screen. This is done to avoid artifacts that sometimes show up in TV broadcasts. The best approach would be to look for a way to disable overscan in your HDTV. If that is not possible, you can probably compensate for overscan in your video card driver, but the image quality will not be quite as good because the computer's pixels don't map exactly to the TV's pixels.
Edit: Wait, this is a 1680x1050 monitor, but you mention 1920x1080 in your question. What resolution is your graphics card set at?
Shiki
Check the hz setting, I had to use 59hz setting. (Which gets recognised as 60hz on the display.) Yes, ATI hardware. On my NVidia there is nothing like this, beats me what causes this.
(If I set my laptop display as primary, the 60hz is fine on the external. BUT. If I set it to primary (the external, that is), then I have to switch it to 59hz.)
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