What resolution will I get on 32" TV from a PC desktop?

ClarkeKent

Looking to build a small PC desktop and use it in the front room and connect it to my Panasonic 32" TV - .

Would I get a PC monitor type resolution of 1920x1080 or would it be alot less?

When I connect my laptop to the TV, it takes on the resolution from my laptop.

http://www.soundandvision.co.uk/tv/led/panasonic-tx-l32e30_txl32e30b_32inch_led_tv_viera_100hz_dlna_low_price/review

Nilrem

It depends entirely on the TV, according to your link it supports up to full HD, so if you're getting a lower res then you may need to go into the display settings on your laptop and tell it to increase the output resolution to the TV (chances are it's mirroring the laptops own screeen at the moment).

forgotmyname

It takes on the resolution of your laptop because thats the max the laptop can display or you have not set the resolution on the output to be higher.

It may display 1920x1080 but at what frequency? Will it still show it at 60hz? Will the video card output at that res/frequency.

Building a PC for a home theatre? Looked at the Raspberry Pi2 ?? 1920x1080 running KODI, no issues.

prowla

The laptop should be able to display at the TV's native resolution (assuming it has a HDMI or VGA connector), assuming the particular model's graphics can do that.

If it's a modern 1080p TV, then you should get 1980x1080, whereas a 720p one can do 1280x720.

Note that you can usually set a separate resolution for the laptop's screen and the external one (in Windows it's right click on the desktop, choose resolution, there's an option to extend desktop or something along those lines).

stator

Virtually all laptops should be able to output 1920x1080.

If it's a 1080 HD TV then that's the best resolution to use. If your TV doesn't have a native resolution of 1920x1080 then use whatever it is; the native resolution is always the best.

You might find the edges of your desktop are not shown on the TV because of "overscan". Your drivers should hopefully have an option to correct this.

Fightsback

stator wrote: »

You might find the edges of your desktop are not shown on the TV because of "overscan". Your drivers should hopefully have an option to correct this.

Alternatively the TV should be capable of doing this for you, depending on the model it's sometimes referred to as 1:1 pixel mapping, alternatively on a Samsung make sure you rename the HDMI channel to PC.

Check the manual for your TV for the correct procedure and to see if it is capable of 1:1 pixel mapping.

Edit

see page 53 here:

https://www.manualowl.com/m/Panasonic/TXL32E30B/Manual/295826