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01-22-2016, 05:29 PM
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#1 | | Fanboy
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| Using an HDTV as a monitor and resolution settings
I am trying to use a 32" Phillips LED TV as a computer monitor. It works and looks great, however the resolution 1920x1080 looks stretched on the screen itself.
I can see only have of the start menu bar and barely any of the top of the Firefox browser.
Initial searching online came up with the TV's aspect ratio needing to be changed to fit the screen. The TV's has only 5 picture formats:
Normal
4:3
Movie Expand
Zoom
Wide
Neither of these settings change it so the full screen resolution fits the computer desktop.
Any ideas?
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01-22-2016, 05:35 PM
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It's a GPU setting that can be adjusted on your computer. Something along the lines of scaling.
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01-22-2016, 05:37 PM
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#3 | | Fanboy
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Holy crap I just figured it out by fluke.
Step 1:
Open Screen Resolution settings
Step 2:
Click Advance Settings
Step 3:
Click Intel HD Graphics Control Panel tab (Onboard graphics on my PC)
Step 4:
Click Graphic Properties
Step 5:
Select a screen resolution and use custom aspect ratio!
Use the sliders so it fits the screen!
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01-22-2016, 06:50 PM
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#4 | | MiX iT Up!
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damnit. i returned a 32" tv because i had your issue!
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01-22-2016, 07:45 PM
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glad you found a fix, the issue is called Overscan
tv (sometimes in advanced settings) or gpu settings can fix it
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01-22-2016, 08:20 PM
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#6 | | Got MOD?
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Generally choosing screen fit will fix the issue. I've got that set on all my dashboard TV's around the office.
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01-22-2016, 08:39 PM
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#7 | | Fanboy
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Yea ^
There also a setting in the Intel graphics control panel to fit on screen.
Either way, happy to have found a solution and I'm sure someone will search this thread in the future and find the answer.
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01-22-2016, 08:42 PM
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#8 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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I had a TV that worked as a monitor just fine for years
one day the stretching happened...I'm far from a noob so I looked through windows/driver settings, TV settings...even custom res with the sliders only helped so much.
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01-22-2016, 08:54 PM
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It's not overscan, it's not the Intel panel or scaling, it's a basic Windows setting that has existed since Windows 95.
Right-click Desktop, select Screen Resolution, set to the native resolution of the display, which for ANY 1080p TV is 1920x1080.
On Windows 7 it looks like this:  View Screen Capture  View Screen Capture
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