1080p display but 760p native?

[moneer]

Hey how's everyone doing?

So I have a 32 inch 1080p tv, but when I connect my pc to it, at 1080p the text looks weird. Not small point font, but condensed and squished letters that looks really bad from up close.

When I set the resolution to 760p in the windows monitor manager, my display reports that it is still receiving a 1080p resolution. Is this normal?

When at 760p, if I play a video on youtube at 1080p and fulscreen, will it actually be 1080p or will it downscale to 760p?

Thank you for your time!!!!

 

[Puffnstuff]

Have you tried adjusting the tv output to conform to a pc input? I had to make adjustments with my old Samsung smart tv to get it to display normally when my pc was feeding it through hdmi at 1080p.

 

[digitaldurandal]

What TV is it? I know when I was looking at TVs before there are some screens that i found listed as 1080p but they actually were 768p with stretched pixels. I nearly bought one to use as a media pc monitor before I realized.

 

[moneer]

Have you tried adjusting the tv output to conform to a pc input? I had to make adjustments with my old Samsung smart tv to get it to display normally when my pc was feeding it through hdmi at 1080p.

I will test that later today as I couldn't get the chance to do so last night.

What TV is it? I know when I was looking at TVs before there are some screens that i found listed as 1080p but they actually were 768p with stretched pixels. I nearly bought one to use as a media pc monitor before I realized.

It's a 32inch LG tv. It was upwards of 300 dollars 2 or 3 years ago, so I'm pretty sure it is 1080p.

 

[Viper GTS]

Find the model number, that's the only way to be sure.

There are plenty of TVs from that era that will happily accept a 1080p input but don't have the physical pixels to display them properly.

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[moneer]

find the model number, that's the only way to be sure.

There are plenty of tvs from that era that will happily accept a 1080p input but don't have the physical pixels to display them properly.

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32ln530b-ua

 

[Viper GTS]

http://www.lg.com/us/support/products/documents/32LN530B-Spec-Sheet.pdf

It's a 720p TV with native resolution 1366x768.

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[moneer]

http://www.lg.com/us/support/products/documents/32LN530B-Spec-Sheet.pdf

It's a 720p TV with native resolution 1366x768.

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Woooow!!!!!
So it's a fake 1080p?
Is it a HUGE difference between a native 1080p display? Worth the ugrade??

 

[Viper GTS]

It's not a fake 1080p, why do you think it is? They very clearly state it's a 720p model.

There's no downside to being able to take a 1080p signal on a 720p set.

Yes, moving to 1080p set would make a huge difference for PC use. It's basically double the pixel count.

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[moneer]

It's not a fake 1080p, why do you think it is? They very clearly state it's a 720p model.

There's no downside to being able to take a 1080p signal on a 720p set.

Yes, moving to 1080p set would make a huge difference for PC use. It's basically double the pixel count.

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Someone previously stated that the pixels on these displays stretch to give a 1080p output.
Since native resolution is 768p, changing the resolution to higher then that won't really change the quality, or am I incorrect?

Sorry for my ignorance on this subject.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Someone previously stated that the pixels on these displays stretch to give a 1080p output.
Since native resolution is 768p, changing the resolution to higher then that won't really change the quality, or am I incorrect?

Sorry for my ignorance on this subject.

For best results keep the resolution matching the sets actual output. If this is similar to the set I was looking it at it has rectangularish pixels and text will look a little off. There is nothing to be done about it, unfortunately it is probably not a great media PC.

 

[Viper GTS]

1366x768 on a 16:9 set shouldn't be stretched (non-square) pixels. The non square pixel displays were typically 16:9 plasmas with 1024x768 pixel resolution I believe, I'm not sure I've ever seen a rectangular pixel LCD.

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