Evening Reading: 3D 3D

by Greg Mueller, Jan 08, 2010 5:00pm PST

Here's a fresh chatty for you all to enjoy on this Friday night. We've had our ups and we've had our downs, but it's been a pretty good first week to start off the new year. It will no doubt be remembered as vividly and with the same fondness as all the other first-weeks-of-the-year past. That is, not much at all.

The weekend is almost upon us. May yours be as fun and exciting as an endless stream of sharp news, snappy headlines, and witty comments from Faylor, Alice, Garnett, Jeff, and the rest of the Shack.

In case you missed it, here's a taste of all the fun and excitement we had today:

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Are there any third party applications that deal with plugging your laptop into your television? The on-board Intel one that comes with my laptop works okay except I can't figure out why the Windows desktop looks like shit. Everything else looks normal, games, video, etc. I can't figure out if it's the aspect ratio or what, but adjusting everything has brought no success.

Jan 09, 2010 7:52am PST

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Are there any third party applications that deal with plugging your laptop into your television? The on-b... : tomservo
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  What are you using to connect the two together? Because anything other than VGA/DVI always looks shit for... : Jonathan
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    It's just a straight VGA/VGA cable. I didn't think about that, but I imagine that could be the cause of i... : tomservo
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      Do you know the native resolution of the TV screen? : Jonathan
      
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      Not off hand. It's a 37" 1080p television, so my uneducated assumption was that it would be able to handl... : tomservo
      
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      Try 1920x1080 pixels : Jonathan
      
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      Laptop has onboard video so it only goes up to 1600x900 :( : tomservo
      
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      Oh try 1280x720 then. : Jonathan
      
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      That one was all weird and vibrating hahaha. But I fixed it! See below. : tomservo
      
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      Turning off Cleartype did it? : Jonathan
      
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      Surprisingly, nope! : tomservo
      
      Odd. The font looks kind of crappy with or without ClearType. But that's fine because games and videos lo... : tomservo
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  What specifically looks bad - text, icons, or everything? Can you be more specific as to what looks wron... : bipolar
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    It's as if everything is pushed in from both sides, but mostly the text looks like shit. Even though the ... : tomservo
    - FWIW, I ran into a similar problem with my plasma. But I have a 42" plasma with rectangular pixels at 10... : bipolar
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  Here are two shots of the weird stuff:
  
  1. The desktop is way off center on the screen:
  http://tomservo.shackspace.com/butts/IMG_1935.JPG
  
  2. The font is smooshed ever so slightly, about to go turn off ClearType and see if that helps):
  http://tomservo.shackspace.com/butts/IMG_1936.JPG
  
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  Here are two shots of the weird stuff: 1. The desktop is way off center on the screen: http://tomser... : tomservo
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    Okay I figured it out! I didn't play with it too much last night, but running it in 1600x900 with the lap... : tomservo
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      By default the Intel monitor applet is set to try to scale your desktop based on the laptop display - the... : mn3m0n1c
      
      Cool. I will tool around with it a little more and see if I can get the font to look pretty again. I am s... : tomservo
    - OMFG DEUS EX ON 37 INCHES :D :D :D http://tomservo.shackspace.com/butts/IMG_1939.JPG The Dig! http:... : tomservo
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  Would you guys recommend anything besides a VGA/VGA cable for this? Mainly I will be watching videos from... : tomservo
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    If your lappy has DVI out (or HDMI), use that for a cleaner picture (digital>analog). VGA and component a... : mn3m0n1c
    - Thank you! It doesn't have DVI, but the picture looks just as good as I would expect it so whatever. God ... : tomservo

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