Tv as monitor

smellsfunny

I'm using a 28 inch 1080P TV as a monitor but the quality is not half as good when it's connected to a monitor. Graphics don't look half as good as they do when connected to a normal monitor. Any one know settings or programs to get the TV looking better

BloodBath

Maybe the quality of the tv isn't as good as your monitor?

What brand and model is it?

Have you configured the colour? How is it connected? HDMI, DVI, VGA?

thenightrider

smellsfunny wrote: »

I'm using a 28 inch 1080P TV as a monitor but the quality is not half as good when it's connected to a monitor. Graphics don't look half as good as they do when connected to a normal monitor. Any one know settings or programs to get the TV looking better

Refresh rates are not as good on a tv as a monitor but you should still be able to get 1080p out of the tv when useing it as a monitor check what the output is set to by right clicking on the desktop and picking screen resolution

smellsfunny

yea its set to max resolution 1920* and connected via HDMI. Just letters are blurry and stuff and textures in games don't look that good really. I looked it on the net and they said to lower sharpness of tv and turn off noise reduction on TV but still the same. Its a bush 1080P TV.

Other people on the net had similar problems with tv's and guess I might sell and get a tv/monitor.

Hank Scorpio

smellsfunny wrote: »

yea its set to max resolution 1920* and connected via HDMI. Just letters are blurry and stuff and textures in games don't look that good really. I looked it on the net and they said to lower sharpness of tv and turn off noise reduction on TV but still the same. Its a bush 1080P TV.

Other people on the net had similar problems with tv's and guess I might sell and get a tv/monitor.

Seen this problem, there's a bush TV here and everything is blurry when using a hdmi or VGA/DVI cable. Nothing you can do.

The LG TV that's here though looks fine connected as a monitor

ED E

smellsfunny wrote: »

yea its set to max resolution 1920* and connected via HDMI. Just letters are blurry and stuff and textures in games don't look that good really. I looked it on the net and they said to lower sharpness of tv and turn off noise reduction on TV but still the same. Its a bush 1080P TV.

Other people on the net had similar problems with tv's and guess I might sell and get a tv/monitor.

Are you sure its Full HD and not HD Ready or 720p and upscaling internally.

smellsfunny

ED E wrote: »

Are you sure its Full HD and not HD Ready or 720p and upscaling internally.

No its definitely a 1080P Full HD TV. I'm not a noob at this stuff either.

It works but just a bit blurry. Picture isn't great. I've basically tried everything. I'll try mess around again with the graphics card control center again.

ED E

With HDMI I find that CCC automatically underscans 15%. If this were to happen and the TV compensated by default it could cause problems like that.

lionela

ED E wrote: »

With HDMI I find that CCC automatically underscans 15%. If this were to happen and the TV compensated by default it could cause problems like that.

I use a 23" Samsung HD tv as a monitor and it works fine.

My understanding is that you right click anywhere on screen,

Click properties....select settings...and bring the resolution up to 1920 /1080 and select "apply"

that should do it unless your graphics card is not up to it.

My graphics card is ATI Radeon x300/x500/x1050 in a Dell Dimension 4700 with windows XP

I stand to be corrected if wrong.

Mr McBoatface

Most likely ur TV doesn't support 4:4:4 Chroma

Baked.noodle

On my telly there is the option to label inputs into the tv. Before I selected "pc" for the hdmi input in my telly the picture was quite blocky, and it wasn't very sharp.

smellsfunny

Resolution is up full, 1980. It picks it up as 1080P when I switch to HDMI. It is an i3 system and has a 7850 as a graphics card. Its directly connected via HDMI. I tried VGA as well but no luck.

JackieChan

ED E wrote: »

With HDMI I find that CCC automatically underscans 15%. If this were to happen and the TV compensated by default it could cause problems like that.

Yeah I noticed this on a new build last month. The image had a blur on the text and I just set CCC to overscan by the max 15% and that blur was gone.

J-blk

Baked.noodle wrote: »

On my telly there is the option to label inputs into the tv. Before I selected "pc" for the hdmi input in my telly the picture was quite blocky, and it wasn't very sharp.

+1 on this one - my 40" Samsung looks ****e when first connected over HDMI because noise reducing and other processing crap is enabled, which is not needed with a PC connected. Enabling PC mode on the input that the system is connected to turns all the superfluous crap off and makes things look a lot better.

BloodBath

Image sharpening should never be used for 1080p content of any kind.

smellsfunny

JackieChan wrote: »

Yeah I noticed this on a new build last month. The image had a blur on the text and I just set CCC to overscan by the max 15% and that blur was gone.

How do you do this?

J-blk wrote: »

+1 on this one - my 40" Samsung looks ****e when first connected over HDMI because noise reducing and other processing crap is enabled, which is not needed with a PC connected. Enabling PC mode on the input that the system is connected to turns all the superfluous crap off and makes things look a lot better.

I can't manually input PC on the HDMI connection. When I connect via VGA the max resolution I can set is 1600* which is very strange. I have the latest drivers.

Mister Man

I've the same problem myself. I've a small HD TV that I conntect to my PC via HDMI and it looks ****e when I compare stuff from my main monitor to the HD one. I've just accepted it, as it's just a secondary display that's used when I'm working. I've tried lower all sorts of stuff, and researched the problem.
However, when I connected my PC to a different HD TV (This one being much more expensive) I was able to switch a few things around and it looked great. I believe the small TV is a toshiba, and the other one is a LG, if that helps you at all

smellsfunny

Mister Man wrote: »

I've the same problem myself. I've a small HD TV that I conntect to my PC via HDMI and it looks ****e when I compare stuff from my main monitor to the HD one. I've just accepted it, as it's just a secondary display that's used when I'm working. I've tried lower all sorts of stuff, and researched the problem.
However, when I connected my PC to a different HD TV (This one being much more expensive) I was able to switch a few things around and it looked great. I believe the small TV is a toshiba, and the other one is a LG, if that helps you at all

Yea cheers, I think the LG ones are TV/Monitor when I looked them up. Anyone know of a fairly decent 26 inch monitor or bigger for around the 180 mark. Or I was thinking of selling the bush one on adverts and getting this. I think just the bush makes arn't as good as other tvs.
http://www.did.ie/lg-27-full-hd-led-tv-monitor-m2732d

Mr McBoatface

smellsfunny wrote: »

Yea cheers, I think the LG ones are TV/Monitor when I looked them up. Anyone know of a fairly decent 26 inch monitor or bigger for around the 180 mark. Or I was thinking of selling the bush one on adverts and getting this. I think just the bush makes arn't as good as other tvs.
http://www.did.ie/lg-27-full-hd-led-tv-monitor-m2732d

It is an LG with an IPS screen so should supports 4:4:4 chroma. LG decsribe it as a "Premium Monitor TV For Your Own Entertainment" . The Manual states it has a PC-HDMI mode so should work fine, but for best results you should connect using a graphic card with HDMI or DVI.

I may just nab one myself.....damn you:)

BloodBath

smellsfunny wrote: »

How do you do this?



I can't manually input PC on the HDMI connection. When I connect via VGA the max resolution I can set is 1600* which is very strange. I have the latest drivers.

That's the max res vga can do. It's an analog signal.