Hooking my laptop up to my flat screen?

I had an unused HDMI cable, saw the hookups from my laptop to my flat screen, and decided to connect them. But when I hooked them up my flat screen was really blurry. I assumed that my computer's resolution was just too good for my flat screen to handle. But after some research I discovered that my 1080i flat screen should have a resolution of 1920x1080 pixel resolution. My current setting for my laptop is 1360x850.


What am a doing wrong? How do I get the same level of detail on the bigger screen? And when I say blurrier, I mean blurrier. I drew box's with blue edges and white space in the middle, in the paint program, those white spaces don't even show up on the flat screen.

 

Probably will need to adjust the resolution of the screen in your display options. For most versions of windows you can find this in your control panel. You need to set that to what ever size the tv should be at. If you look at the manual that the tv came with it might give you recommendations on that.

 

I did what you suggested. The flat screen graphics just got smaller, but not really sharper. The words got smaller, but more blurry, lol.

 

Not sure other then that, did you look at your tv's manual for any recommendations?

 

Yes, it doesn't say much. Just to turn them both off, then back on. But there is an option to choose pc settings, but that option says it isn't available when I highlight it. I looked on the Philips forum and no one answered the guy who asked the same question as me.


And I have no remote, and the manual asks me to hit the "Source" button lol. Oh well, maybe some other day.

 

Double post. edited out.

 

Source sounds like it would just switch the input, i know depanding on how it does the scaling it might look like crap on tv, like my brothers tv, he can't use a things with text and get good readable letters, but with movies and video content it looks fine. Maybe try a movie and see if that looks ok?

 

Never mind I got it. The video format might be 1080i, but the supported pc format is 1360x768. It looks pretty good now.