...you are only seeing 768 vertical pixels on the TV, so that why
what things appear cut off. You can't clone when you are running two
different resolutions.
well I am doing it and I have to be getting bigger then 768 because
the width is too big ...not too small.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKFGVPsv-wI
this is for a different chipset
Can you not turn off the laptop screen and just use the TV as the
main display? Or, that the tV as the primary and let crap be on the
laptop screen.
I can do that but I have the same problem... it is just a little too
big for the desktop.
w
On 8/20/2012 3:59 PM, Winterlight wrote:
It shouldn't need to extend, cloning should work just fine, and in
many ways that makes things easier because whatever you are doing
on the laptop would match what is on the TV, but in an appropriate
resolution. Extending to or from another monitor makes sense
because it gives you more screen real estate but extending to a TV
just makes your laptop screen useless assuming the TV is the
primary display which is what you are after because you don't want
to be moving things over from the laptop screen to the TV, you just
want to the TV to be your Display.
This is more about the video card then anything else. Typically any
video player playing will be outputted to the TV automatically and
appear perfectly because that is what the manufacturer designs the
TV output to do properly, but to get a desktop view is not so easy.
ATI cards work pretty well in outputting and it is easy to make
size adjustments. Matrox use to make the best most easy to use, and
I guess they still sell an external USB box for this purpose. I
have a ACER HD laptop with a Intel GM45 card that works neither well nor easy.
The 16 inch laptop uses a Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset with
the newest driver and specs are
16" HD 1366 x 768 = laptop
16:9 aspect ratio
16" Full HD 1920 x 1080 = HD video and or TV
If I set it to clone the laptop is at recommended 1366 x 768 and
the 58 inch PlasmaTV is at recommended 1920X1028 but no matter what
adjustment I make the Taskbar, and the Title bar on the TV are cut
off vertically and some of the horizontal = start button is as
well. For some reason the vertical and horizontal are just a little
too much and that makes opening and shutting down programs a
guesswork or keyboard task.
None of the Panasonic picture formats make it better and the Intel
adjustments don't seem to help at all probably because it is
outputting at the correct 1920 x 1080 so it is not letting me
adjust smaller.I could live with it except my Meida Center view is
cut off at the perimeter and that makes things annoyingly awkward.
winterlight
At 06:16 AM 8/20/2012, you wrote:
Ah...I see now...extending means that both montors are your
desktop, and both run at their own resolution, but can be used
independently, in a sense. You can just drag the video to the
projector (second display) and run it full screen (maximize to
full 1920x1080 on projector, but not on the laptop). So the movie
plays on the projector and the laptops screen will show whatever
is on that desktop part of the desktop. Just don't have a window
lapping across the two displays or it will show on the projected
image. Think of your desktop being made of two rectangular areas
of pixels like 1024x768 (on the left) and then 1920x1080 (on the
right). When you drag a window say from left to right, it moves
across from the 1024x768 group of pixels into the 1920x1080 group of pixels.
The Windows is smart enough to know that each group of pixels is
actually a monitor, so you get the option of running full screen
windows in either group of pixels, in addition to stretching
windows across both groups. It gets wonky when the two rectangular
areas have different vertical dimensions, though. I do this all
the time for presentations, but not really for movies.
On 8/20/2012 8:44 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 08:30 PM 15/08/2012, Winterlight wrote:
It is <cloning> but I thought <extending> meant to make one long
display instead of two distinct displays.
Yeah, you don't want cloning. I do the same thing with my
projector and Acer laptop, and I need to extend if I want full
1080p on the projector.
T
