Kassem
I've recently bought a Toshiba Satellite L50-C1709 which has a Geforce GTX 950M 4GB graphics card. Today, I bought a Samsung Smart TV 22" to use it as a monitor (I might replace it with a 24" tomorrow). I've connected the TV to the laptop through the HDMI port and then tried to use the optimal resolution 1920x1080. Unfortunately, at that resolution, the colors looked great but the screen was kind of pixelated (not sharp). When I dropped the resolution to 1680x1050 the screen looked sharp but the colors looked dull (not so bright/lively). Also, it's worth mentioning that in Device Manager, the TV was installed as Generic PnP monitor (just like the laptop's display).
Any suggestions on how to properly configure the monitor and get the best outcome?
Thanks!
Stygmata
Looks like a driver issue
eliminator
I have the same issue on a 32 inch Samsung Smart TV, I looked for drivers but no drivers when plugged as VGA.
I use it as a second monitor on my desktop, When I use HDMI, I can better set up the TV.
But when I plug it via VGA cable, the picture is blurred ( slight double images to the right) , sometimes the effect is so apparent I just unplug and replug (TV side) and the effect is reduced. (So 1st check your cable and see if it is tightly screwed) This happens quite often on the generator's electricity and not on EDL.
If your TV is series 6 or higher, then you can have a lot of settings via hdmi, which I suggest to do so, just to check also the difference between VGA and HDMI. Also it is detected as a generic pnp on VGA, where as on HDMI it is detected as Samsung TV.
Future plans include getting a normal PC monitor and an external TV box. PC monitors are always better.
Hope the above is helpful.
Kassem
Ok here's what I did...
First off, I connected it using HDMI right from the start. My laptop does not even have a VGA port. I set the resolution to 1920x1080 which caused the effect I've described in the initial post. But, then I changed the TV's picture mode from Dynamic to Movie and dropped the Sharpness to zero. After that, I found a way in the TV settings to make the rendered picture scale to fit the screen so it doesn't get out of the view's boundaries. Finally, I adjusted the brightness and saturation a tiny bit and now it looks really good.
