Joanne Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 I've recently added a fairly old 27" TV to the wall of my office and plugged it into my machine using the last available port - DVI. I have a DVI - HDMI cable running the the TV, but the resolution isn't right. The screen is "HD Ready" which suggests to me it's 720p. I've tried setting the resolution to this but it doesn't change. Currently it's set to 1920 x 1080 and it displays, but slightly cut off around the edges. If I change it to 1280 x 720 it is still cut off around the edges. Is it because I'm using a DVI - HDMI cable? I might swap the cable into one of my better monitors and have VGA to this worse screen... WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Michael Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 A native HD resolution is 1360 x 760 or 1360 x 768 - how sad that I know this off by heart! Technically 1920 x 1080 is more than HD quality, but like most computer screens, they do support it. You could try seeing what driver Windows has allocated the TV screen. This may/may not influence the available resolutions to you.
Sagima Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 Aren't 720p screens really 1366 x 768. Have you tried that resolution?
DJ-1701 Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 HD Ready should be 720 correct. With a few TVs in the past I have had to change the TV display mode to fit (16:9, Full Screen, etc).
GuyJD Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 I had the same issue with my tv at home, I had to change a setting on the tv to get it to work properly, but I can't for the life of me remember what that setting was. If you are using an Nvidia GPU you should be able to use the desktop resizing utility in nvidia control panel which will sort of do the same job but give you a strange non standard resolution, not sure in AMD has a similar tool because I'm a Nvidia fanboi lol
Joanne Posted March 14, 2016 Author Posted March 14, 2016 Still cuts off slightly around the edges with that resolution... all monitors have the "Generic PnP" driver... should I look into changing this? I'm on an Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 so I'll check the settings in there too thanks!
bald_pig Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 Overscan, but no use if your not using a HDMI port.
Michael Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 Still cuts off slightly around the edges with that resolution... all monitors have the "Generic PnP" driver... should I look into changing this? I'm on an Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 so I'll check the settings in there too thanks! You could see if Windows has a more appropriate driver. Certainly can't hurt to try. As for the image being displayed in 16:9 or 4:3 I didn't think computer resolutions were affected by this (I think), it would just make the imaged look warped.
Joanne Posted March 14, 2016 Author Posted March 14, 2016 I think it is going to be the overscan setting, but my nvidia control panel won't open!!! Silly computer. I'll see if there are other drivers.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 We had this issue when going DVI>HDMI for the TV Screens we used at BETT a couple of years ago. The easiest fix was to get the correct mode on the tv. Cinema or 16:9 mode seemed to make it fit properly 1
gavlar Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 I had this issue with my Samsung TV. I was able to make it fit the screen properly by using the scaling option to customize the Aspect Ratio. Not sure if this will help with your Nvidia Graphics but worked with my set up.
Joanne Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 I downloaded the newest driver yesterday and I'm just trying to install it, but it keeps failing. On my 3rd attempt now having rebooted and selected clean install!
Sagima Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 If you haven't already tried it I've found that DDU can sort out grpahics driver instal problems in the past (normally when I swap nvidia to amd or amd to nvidia Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) V15.7.5.2 Released. - Wagnardmobile Forum
Joanne Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 If you haven't already tried it I've found that DDU can sort out grpahics driver instal problems in the past (normally when I swap nvidia to amd or amd to nvidia Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) V15.7.5.2 Released. - Wagnardmobile Forum Thanks. Gonna try this now. Read on a google search to do this too.
Sagima Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Thanks. Gonna try this now. Read on a google search to do this too. I run all three uninstallers from safe mode then reboot back into proper windows and install 1
Joanne Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 I just ran it in Windows, rebooted and now the new driver has installed now to try and get this damn screen on the right aspect!
Joanne Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Hurray! So the resolution I needed to fit the screen of this 'Mirai' 27" TV? 1766 x 1014.... OF COURSE! 1
Joanne Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Piece of ****... knew I shouldn't have bothered getting it mounted, but it was sat on the floor in my office taking up space and I'm not ready for a recycling collection just yet..... Hah! I put my e-mails up on it, but then the screen is so poor I couldn't really read them o.O
Patrick Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 It's not worth it, i have an old 27" "HD" ready TV connected to my PC, it's angled to the bed so i can watch netflix in bed off my PC. But the resolution is just daft and i get blurred edges. There ok for watching videos from a distance but not up close for reading or browsing the web.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 DDU is definitely the way to go. A very useful bit of software
GuyJD Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 I'm pretty sure you should be able to get it to run at 1920x1080 if you fiddle with the settings on the TV
GuyJD Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Also if you are using windows 10 you can set a different magnification level just for that screen to make the text a bit larger
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