Setting up my HDTV as computer screen

I'm having some issues setting up my 32in 1080p samsung HDTV to my computer screen. I've got it all pluged and it works have been playing around with the settings for a week now and it still won't get right. Text is still showing up a little blury and some things are not fitting on the screen ect...ect.

Are there any guides how to properly set up the HDTV as the computer screen?

It's a scaling issue. I had to set my TV to "Unscaled" but I'm not sure if YOUR TV has that option.

Right, I should be more specific.

OK, there's a problem with HDTV's: They're designed WRONG. ALL of them.

The problem was underscan/overscan on ANALOG signals for old CRT TV's. Some idiot decided to incorporate overscan into HDTV's rather than address the problem through scaling correction, even though digital signals are capable of doing 1:1 pixel-by-pixel links. That is, an HDTV could have been made like a computer screen, but it wasn't because somebody decided to mix analog's problems with digital's solutions.

End result: A 720p TV is really something like 13xx x 768 rather than 1280x720. For some graphics cards, if you set the native resolution of the TV it doesn't work due to overscan correction which shouldn't even be there, and you must instead set 720x1280 and force the graphics card to overscan.

Now, if you have something that does work natively, such as 1920x1080 on a true 1920x1080 screen, there's STILL an overscan issue so you still need to adjust that down to zero in the graphics driver. But, because the TV is trying to use something other than "real" 1080p (say, 1900x1000 with overscan), it screws up things like text.

And that's where setting the TV to NO SCALING comes into play.

And everything I just said applies only to HDMI or DVI. Things get even more screwed up when using an analog connection.

I had a similar problem with my LG 47LH90 HDTV. It was corrected by selecting going into the Picture menu and choosing Just Scan for aspect ratio.

[quotemsg=2000036,4,7667]Right, I should be more specific.

OK, there's a problem with HDTV's: They're designed WRONG. ALL of them.

I hooked up my Vizio 32" with no adjusting and no problems.

That's funny because overscan is wrongly designed into the specification. For Vizio to work "right" without tinkering they would have to do something strange...like make their TV smarter.

So what you're saying is that you either have a 1.) TV that detects it's connected to a computer rather than an external tuner, or, 2.) A computer that detects its connected to a TV rather than a monitor and automatically uses that worse settings that the TV expects. Right?

Yeh, that means either the TV automatically switched to PC format or vice versa.

That's great to hear. Unfortunately I've never actually seen this strange "hook it up, it works perfectly" phenomenon.

I would say something about looking in the mirror every day, but I might be struck by lightening

Hey, Crashy, I do have a problem in which with your infinite wisdom, I'm sure you can help. When I try to install the latest drivers for a 8800 GTX it says im using a 32 bit uninstaller on a 64 bit system. a common problem I understand. Whats the easiest fix?

but I am using the 64 bit driver