macbook pro to samsung lcd

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t.kubeshesky

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I have a macbook pro 15' and today i bought a wireless keyboard and wireless trackpad, great investments if you would like to use your tv as a monitor! The only problem i am having is the picture is kind of blurry and distorted. i will post a picture so you can see. i have it wired from mini dvi-dvi-hdmi. my tv is a samsung 32 inch 720p tv. what should my setting for best picture quality be? Thanks !

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t.kubeshesky said:
... i will post a picture so you can see. ...
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It is unclear exactly what you are trying to accomplish. A screen shot is an electronic copy of the image that the computer sends to the monitor. It is not an electronic copy of the image seen by the viewer. The image that you posted looks spectacular because the signal sent to the TV is spectacular. If you want us to see what you see what you see, then you must photograph it. However, this will not work so well due to camera flash reflections from the monitor glass and other issues.

Also understand this--your Samsung is a TV and a cheap TV at that. As a rule of thumb, TVs do not make good computer monitors.
 
Ok,don't know what macbook pro model you have but it is quite possible that your video card cannot support that size tv.You might want to check Apple support to see what the specs are for your particular machine.I normally run my 1st generation Macbook pro with a 22" acer monitor,But if I plug it in to my 26" Samsung TV the quality degrades. TV's to not make good monitors!!!!!
 
t.kubeshesky said:
that picture is clear? not in my viewing. and in my opinion samsung is one of the best if not the best tv's on the market.
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So you are going to be one of those:
  • If you think that your screenshot is so horrible, then use a different computer to look at it. Then you will see what I see.
  • Nobody disputes the fact that Samsung makes some great TVs. I own one. Just because Samsung makes 240 Hz 3-D 1080p models doesn't mean that you should expect to see 3-D 1080p content without motion artifacts in all its glory on your cheap 720p 2-D model:rolleyes:
 
I think what you're expecting is that the large TV screen size will have a greater resolution than your MacBook Pro LCD screen, which is not the case.

TVs are not computer monitors, and your 720p Samsung TV, while very high quality, has an extremely low resolution in terms of being a computer monitor.

Your MacBook Pro probably has an LCD resolution of 1440 x 900, and your TV probably has a resolution of 1366 x 720. You can see already that your TV is displaying far less pixels than your MacBook Pro, and, on top of that, the screen size of the TV is a lot bigger than your 15" LCD screen.

The short and skinny of it is that your TV has less resolution than your MacBook Pro LCD monitor, and is also displaying the image at a far greater size -- in essence, your TV is displaying less pixels, and those pixels are bigger than your MacBook Pro's LCD -- probably making for the "fuzzy" image you're seeing.

A TV is not comparable to a computer monitor. Computer monitors typically have far greater resolutions than TVs.
 
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