Bad TV quality when connected to PC

[DanielaChoresh]

Hi, so I just bought a new full HD TV.
Usually, the image quality is really good, but when I connect it to my computer, the quality is really bad.
I connect it through an HDMI cable.

Thanks!
-Daniela

 

[greens]

SO, you're connecting your TV to a laptop right?
Laptop screen probably has a much lower resolution.
The Laptop is set to DUPLICATE the desktop i'd guess, which is causing it to duplicate the low resolution.

You want to go into your display properties and set windows to EXTEND the desktop. That will allow your monitor to run at its full resolution!

Let me know if any of my assumptions are wrong, you've done this, or it doesn't work!

 

[DanielaChoresh]

SO, you're connecting your TV to a laptop right?
Laptop screen probably has a much lower resolution.
The Laptop is set to DUPLICATE the desktop i'd guess, which is causing it to duplicate the low resolution.

You want to go into your display properties and set windows to EXTEND the desktop. That will allow your monitor to run at its full resolution!

Let me know if any of my assumptions are wrong, you've done this, or it doesn't work!

Thank you for answering but I'm connecting it to a PC and the PC screen is 1920x1080

 

[greens]

Hmm, what makes you say the TV is low quality? Do things look blurry? Can you confirm that the TV is also running at 1920x1080 in display settings?

 

[ss202sl]

Some T.V.'s have a PC setting(or mode) that helps clean up the image.

 

[greens]

TVs are not 4:4:4 chromatic so they are typically always a bit blurry due to their compression and the loss associated with it. If your resolution is correct and everything else is right, it may be that the TV is just too close to you.

 

[DanielaChoresh]

Hmm, what makes you say the TV is low quality? Do things look blurry? Can you confirm that the TV is also running at 1920x1080 in display settings?

They aren't blurry at all, the colors are bad (over saturated) and the quality seems sharp but 480p.
Perhaps it's bad becuase my HDMI cable is too long?

 

[greens]

Again, confirm the resolution of the TV - it may be set at 480p! Go into your display settings and actually set it to 1080p. Its the only way we can know for sure you're actually set to 1080p.

 

[BadBoyGreek]

One thing you can also do, provided you've confirmed everything is running at 1080p resolution, is to run the built-in Windows display calibration tool. TV's, by nature, don't have the pixel density of monitors, so out of the box, they don't look quite as sharp as your computer monitor. While the built-in Windows calibration tool is pretty basic, it should allow you to make some good improvements in a matter of minutes.