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[sostoudt]

you gotta realize who your dealing with..... what brand is y550?




Another question for anyone, and a dumb one at that.... If the screen of the laptop is only capable of say 720p, if I hook it up to my 52" 1080p, will the computer produce 1080p into my TV?

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to the question i would say it depends on your video card. my screen is only 1366x 768

but look at what my tv runs at ;D

edit: its 1920x1080p if you can see it on your wimpy monitor

 

[sostoudt]

Nope. The graphics card will not be able to support a resolution that high. It would put out 720p provided you have a good connection though.

well i guess my card and windows 7 lies to me then. because it says its running at 1920x1080

its actually the monitor(hardware) that limits the resolution your screen not the the video card, in some cases

hence why laptop makes give you the option of getting a higher resolution monitor. they actually replace the monitor not the graphics card or chip


edit: you have to realize these chips go in many different computers with many different screens, so they have to support different hardware. so just like i could probably hook up my blu-ray player to a 720p tv and play in 720p, i can still play my 1080p content on my 1080p tv

 

[Johnnybravo60025]

well i guess my card and windows 7 lies to me then. because it says its running at 1920x1080

its actually the monitor(hardware) that limits the resolution your screen not the the video card, in some cases

hence why laptop makes give you the option of getting a higher resolution monitor. they actually replace the monitor not the graphics card or chip

For the general user, it'll usually depend on the GPU. My graphics card (NVIDIA 7600 GT) can only display up to 1680 X 1050, while my monitors can display up to 1920 X 1080. For the most part, people will upgrade their monitors to something bigger and better before they think about the graphics card,

 

[sostoudt]

For the general user, it'll usually depend on the GPU. My graphics card (NVIDIA 7600 GT) can only display up to 1680 X 1050, while my monitors can display up to 1920 X 1080. For the most part, people will upgrade their monitors to something bigger and better before they think about the graphics card,

so your changing your answer from

Nope. The graphics card will not be able to support a resolution that high. It would put out 720p provided you have a good connection though.

then?

 

[Johnnybravo60025]

so your changing your answer from


then?

No. The difference is the display size versus the display resolution. The size only has to do with how big the picture will be while the resolution will be how many pixels are used per object. It's hard for me to put into words because I've never been the best with English, so please bear with me.

 

[sostoudt]

No. The difference is the display size versus the display resolution. The size only has to do with how big the picture will be while the resolution will be how many pixels are used per object. It's hard for me to put into words because I've never been the best with English, so please bear with me.

yes that the tv screen is 48 inches.

however the video card on my pc let me change the resolution, on my computer monitor the resolution can on go up to 1366x768

on my tv the resolution can be set up to 1920x1080 by my video card.

i can control the resolution of my laptop and my tv independantly with them both pluged in. you see the computer sees these as two seperate screens, it doesnt just split transposs the same image on both

you see resolution is based on how many pixels you have in the screen. because my tv has more pixels then my laptop screen, the video card can put a higher resolution on it. and the video card recognized that.

 

[Johnnybravo60025]

yes that the tv screen is 48 inches.

however the video card on my pc let me change the resolution, on my computer monitor the resolution can on go up to 1366x768

on my tv the resolution can be set up to 1920x1080 by my video card.

i can control the resolution of my laptop and my tv independantly with them both pluged in. you see the computer sees these as two seperate screens, it doesnt just split transposs the same image on both

you see resolution is based on how many pixels you have in the screen. because my tv has more pixels then my laptop screen, the video card can put a higher resolution on it. and the video card recognized that.

Right. I think we're both saying the same thing. It really just depends on the quality of your graphics card, and then your TV.

 

[sostoudt]

Right. I think we're both saying the same thing. It really just depends on the quality of your graphics card, and then your TV.

btw i do have a duplicate display option with that enabled, i can only go to my laptops max resolution size. how ever usually i choose disable laptop screen when connected to tv, and that lets me go to the full 1080p resolution on the tv.

 

[Johnnybravo60025]

btw i do have a duplicate display option with that enabled, i can only go to my laptops max resolution size. how ever usually i choose disable laptop screen when connected to tv, and that lets me go to the full 1080p resolution on the tv.

So in your case, it is the monitor's resolution that is restricting the capabilities of your GPU, but I said in most cases, most pre-built computers desktops won't have as great video cards as one that you build. I don't know if this is the case anymore, I haven't bought a prebuilt in over 10 years, so I don't know what they're using now.

 

[sostoudt]

So in your case, it is the monitor's resolution that is restricting the capabilities of your GPU, but I said in most cases, most pre-built computers desktops won't have as great video cards as one that you build. I don't know if this is the case anymore, I haven't bought a prebuilt in over 10 years, so I don't know what they're using now.

i would say laptops built now with any type of discrete graphics probably support it. since i remember my last laptop even working like this with vga out and it just had intergrated graphics.

this laptop i have a midrange one a nvidia 210m.