Laptop to TV
 

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:55:31 -0000, "Norman Wells"
wrote:

UnsteadyKen wrote:

Have you followed the instructions at?:
http://goo.gl/kj7Z

And most importantly the instructions at: "Select the monitor
representing your second display. Click the Extend the desktop onto
this monitor check-box and click OK". Sometimes, if using mirror or
presentation then both screens can only be set to the native
resolution of the main display on the laptop.

Yes, I've done that, so that the image is just displayed on the TV not on
the laptop at the same time.

Just a long shot, I had a video card (not in a laptop) that would only
permit the same resolution on both monitors, and an earlier one,
probably memory-limited, that would down-res one screen when you upped
the resolution of the other

Try reducing the resolution of the laptop's screen as well as
increasing the resolution on the TV output

Laptop to TV
 

News Reader wrote:

snip
Hence... 1024 x 768... is perfectly adequate or good... and often 800x600
may even be better or preferable. Faster, smoother, quicker, easier for your
laptop and TV, etc., etc. (potentially etc.). Further, your TV should not
be "windowing" or "view port"(ing ing) things... it should show whatever
resolution you choose (within specification or reason) full screen or such
as to fill the entire screen (native scaling or whatever).

To that end, try setting the display to 1024x768 or 800x600... then review
on your TV... load something... a picture, web page, whatever.. to confirm
what boundaries it is actually outputting to the TV... is it full screen or
not? Is the TV able to be asked to use a "zoom" mode... Further you may want
to try a supposed "wide screen" resolution option.. .perhaps something more
like 1280 x 800.

/snip


yeah... but... that iPlayer video I'm stuffing down mine is bad enough
already without being resampled by the laptop to 1014x768 and then again
by the TV to 13whatever!

Andy