Exactly How Do You Have Your Computer Connected To Your Lcd Tv?
READ CAREFULLY here. I have a Sharp Aquos 37" LCD TV. There were many models of the 37" Aquos. Mine didn't come with a VGA adapter. It came with an HDMI, Component, Composite & S-Video adapter. At 37" the native resolution is not common and video cards struggle with it. I've connected 3 computers to this TV in every possible way, using every possible cable & resolution. I either get no picture, blurry picture, pixelated picture or ghosted picture. When used as a TV, it is awesome! When used as a monitor, it is very poor. I WANT EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCED OPINION on what they prefer as an LCD TV (not plasma) and I want all the specs too please. I want to know what cable you are using and how it connects. Is it composite, component, DVI/HDMI VGA S-video and coax. I want to know what video card & resolution YOU are pushing. What the native (preferred/default) resolution is on the LCD TV. What size is the TV, the model # etc. Please don't try to solve my issue, just tell me what you run!
December 26th, 2009 - 05:13
I’ve connected my computer to my 60″ Sony rear-projection 1080p HDTV via VGA. VGA or better yet, DVI, is the best way to connect a computer to your TV. Otherwise, using s-video or composite video will only give you a maximum of 800×600, at 4:3 (not 16:9/widescreen) Your TV will attempt to upscale this, resulting in the fuzziness you’re reporting.
Make sure your computer can also support the TV’s native resolution (for me, it’s 1920×1080, non-interlaced/progressive scan) While my computer’s video card can support this, my laptop’s video card cannot. So I have to send it 800×600, which results in the screen being “boxed” on my TV, as opposed to using the whole screen, in addition to be fuzzy due to my TV’s upscaler.
If your video card doesn’t seem to support this, don’t despair. When I switched from a standard CRT monitor to a widescreen LCD one, my old computer didn’t display properly until I updated the video drivers. This allowed it to handle the resolutions of today’s newer LCD monitors and HDTVs. So long as your computer’s video card has more than 64MB of memory, you should be fine.
December 26th, 2009 - 11:41
u have to adjust ur resolution on ur computer (right click desktop, “properties,” “settings”) to that of ur television. besides movies, it makes no sense to use a wide-screen tv as a computer monitor.