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I need help on connecting my laptop to my plasma TV. Here are my hardware specs:

  1. Dell XPS M1330(display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800)
  2. LG PJ350 plasma TV (display: 42 inch, 16:09, 1024x768)

When I connect my laptop to the TV, the picture quality is very bad. I have tried connected my laptop to my dad's 50" Panasonic TV, the picture is perfect. So, I am pretty sure my laptop is ok.

Here are the reasons that I think might the cause:

  1. Resolution setting on my laptop(I've tried 1024x768, 1168x666, 1280x800, 1980x1080 and many more), but no luck.

  2. I bought a cheap HDMI cable. I don't know if the cable has that much effect on this.

  3. The TV is just defective.

  4. The specs on my laptop just doesn't go with the TV.

If the picture quality can't be improved, I am thinking to return the TV. Please advise if there is something I can do. Thanks in advance.

Oliver Salzburg
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Dreteh
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Any TV not designed to work as a monitor will be a little blurry due to how they work, and it's a 16:9 resolution so any non-16:9 resolution will look pretty awful.

That particular screen has a native resolution of 1366 X 768, which will be the sharpest picture it will produce. Try setting it to that resolution before anything else.

Trezoid
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plasma TVs have relatively low resolution for their size - so the 'pixels' are HUGE - its even worse on my dad's TV which is 800x600. This results in things not looking as sharp.

Its really not as much an issue with the TV as TVs and monitors being optimised for different things.

Journeyman Geek
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According to this site, the edges are a bit blurry for that TV. I don't know if that's the cause of the problem you're seeing, but it might be an indicator.

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Try to reset all picture settings on your TV to default, I had this issue and that fixed it.

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Nathan
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