Is it normal for a television to make the text look weird? Like hard to read and stuff. Maybe there are not enough pixels per inch?
I'm using my laptop's (Dell Latitude e6320) mini HDMI port to hook up to my 42" LG TV http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-42LB5600-42-Inch-1080p/dp/B00KVLT0A4/ref=sr_1_1?s=tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1419899716&sr=1-1&keywords=Led+tv
The resolution is set to 1920x1080 and although things seem fairly sharp the text is still hard to read. I am fairly close to my TV as well (maybe 4-5 feet). Is a TV just not supposed to work for reading small text?
It's a 1080p TV so I'm expecting the text to be sharp and easy to read...
You're not supposed to be sitting 1.5m (5ft) from a 42" TV... They're not designed for that.
A 42" 1080p TV has an effective DPI of 48. A monitor has 72. High quality print is 300+.
If you want to read text on a TV that close, you'll need at least a 4K TV.
As @ShadowLea says. TV's are not designed for that stuff. Even with 4K it sometimes looks weird from close distance. I can tell that from my own experience with a Samsung curved 55 inch.
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I just got this today and I can't be more pleased with it. It is light and bright and hooks up to my X7501 (via the standard OEM dongle) in a second. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to give presentations on the road. No laptop - just my pocket projector and my Advantage. Amazing!
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cool. did you try playing a movie on it (from your normal laptop)?
any chance of a picture of its performance?
I'm also interested in something like this but I was holding of as LG is also releasing one HS102 DLP (http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/lg-shows-off-hs102-dlp-mobile-projector-with-built-in-battery-d/)
How is the image quality in a normal lit room on a decent projection size.
Thanks and enjoy it
Oh and actually, must be nice for normal browsing? just opera on and projector on and go
I played a movie from my X7501 (my laptop is dead, so can't test) on my kitchen wall and it was about 72" and perfectly watchable. I often have to present where there is no screen, so throwing onto a wall is a common event for me. Was thinking it would be nice for watching a movie in my hotel room.
Hi to all
I have a very strange question.
I watch live tv with broswer, using flash player,I have connected the dock with HDMI to my TV, and the same time I have connected my PC to the same TV using another HDMI input.
I see full screen the live tv of http://live24.gr/webtv/kontrachannel/ , or http://www.extrachannel3.gr/
The picture I am getting from the Tab to the Tv screen is not good comparing from the picture I get from my PC.
Tab's picture looks like it has lower resolution and if you look at it it seams it has pixels like a low resolution picture, Try it yourself, you will see the quality of the picture in the tab's screen if you don't have the dock.It is not good.
The resolution in both devices is 1920X1080, and I have from both devices full screen on TV.
Very strange, has anyone a solution?
Can I do something to have better picture?
Thanks in advance.
I have a micro-usb to HDMI cable and I can plug it to television, it shows a lower-converted resolution from butterfly's 1080*1920 screen. I know that OS has to convert display in order to fit the lower-heighted television resolution(1920*1080),but even though when I go in an app can work horizontally,it still display the lowered resolution. That makes me don't want to put anything to big screen. why don't play it with butterfly s's high definition screen? you say.
How to get this situation better?
Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
clocinnorcal said:
Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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That's nothing to do with Chromecast. That's your TVs "feature" called Dynamic Contrast (or similar marketing name). It is probably enabled on HDMI input you are using Chromecast on.
Re: Chromecast fluctuating Brightness
I have a brand new Chromecast device and I am having brightness issues myself but think it is the fact that I have a cheap import TV. overall casting is always much darker than on my pc on all 3 HDMI ports and my TV has no Dynamic Contrast setting. It does have a dynamic color setting but all that does is add vibrance and sharpness and I leave that off as it makes movies look unnatural.
Even when I cast from my Phone or Tablet the image is darker and there are blues in the darker areas making the image beyond ugly if I turn up the brightness/contrast on my TV.
I hope I can get the cash together for a more expensive TV as I think it is the only way to get a decent image when casting. It would be good if the chromecast extension and the chromecast app had a brightness/contrast/gamma settings in their options to counteract this glitch on cheaper TV's (and cheaper than a new TV)
P.s. Sorry for necroing but this post shows that brightness issues are still happening to this day.
I recently got an (unofficial) adapter to connect my S2 to a TV/monitor, and it works, but I don't like how it outputs to a 4:3 to a 16:9 display, and the resolution is clearly quite low. Is this how the official Samsung adapter outputs as well? Is there any way to change the resolution of the HDMI output, without affecting the resolution of the native display? I would also like a way of disabling the tablets screen while using HDMI, as that is just unnecessary battery drain.
i change it, with the lg tv zoom function
Had the same problem - displaying a 4:3 device on a 16:9 screen will give you black bars on the left and right side of the TV.
Unfortunately I found no solution for changing ONLY the resolution of the HDMI-output, but a great app which will change the resolution of Galaxy Tab: Screen Shift (by Aravind Sagar).
Warning: there are some severe side-effects when putting the device in 1920x1080 mode: FC Samsung keyboard, FC Samsung weather etc - but gaming, playing videos etc will work great! ?
To get real HD video out, you have to use the native Samsung video player. 3rd party video players don't support HD out, only SD video out.
That might explaine your low resolution.
Also when using Samsung video player connected to HDTV, then the tablet screen blacks out automatically to save battery.
4:3 video can be stretched to 16:9 in the Samsung player.
I'm not sure if this all works with an unofficial adapter.
Edit: As of April 2016, VLC-player also supports HD out over MHL.
Get a chromecast, problem solved.