Dell M1330 HDMI to Sony Bravia LCD setup?

This computer is driving me nutty! I bought the dell M1330 because it has the HDMI port to hook into my Sony Bravia XBR 1080P. When I first started the sequence, as directed in the manual, the desktop showed up on the LCD screen, but it was not filling the entire screen BUT before I had a chance to fix the resolution, the LCD screen started flickering and then disappear. Weird, I thought.

Anyways, I've tried the trick of pressing the FN key and the F8 key at the same time, but that hasn't worked. And, per the manual, I've gone into the control panel and under adjust screen resolution I've been directed to "advanced" where the ability to find the "video card" leaves me cold.

I've tried adjusting the resolution & that hasn't done anything.

When I first hooked the LCD and Dell together via the HDMI, I'm pretty sure I selected "mirror" BUT I can't find that screen anymore.

Any help would be a heart saver!

Kevin

 

Right click on the desktop/personalize/display settings and tell me if there are two monitors there.

Also have you the NVidia graphics drivers installed?

 

Hi,

I'm having very similar problems when plugging my m1330's hdmi into my brother's Bravia XBR4 46" - video resolution is 1080p but it's not completely filling the tv, leaves about an inch off all sides so that the image is "pinched" and therefore, unclear.

This happens in both mirror and extend desktop mode but thankfully, I'm not having any flickering/dissappearing issues. I do see two monitors in my display settings.

I will try updating my Nvidia drivers and see if that helps, I won't have access to the tv until I visit my brother again though.

 

My 47" LCD leaves about 1" of black borders too using HDMI on M1330, but it doesn't bother me at all since it's pretty big enough.

 

Are you guys trying to change this setting within Nvidia Control Panel?

There should be a option for 1920x1080. If not you can create a custom resolution, and toy with that.

 

Tusin, the display settings did indicate that I was outputting at 1920x1080


Achilles, I too am find with the size, but its just the image quality.. Like I was saying, its outputting full resolution, but not using the full screen pixels, so the image image comes out "pinched" and blurred. It looks like what you see if you're looking at non-native resolution on any lcd monitor. It's bearable, but far from ideal.

 

Hmmm, what about sending it out at the different refresh rate? Maybe look in the owners manual, or online and see what it's native is.

This may be a dumb question. But this is Sony we are talking about. Is their "1080p" really 1920x1080?

 

Image quality on what? Pics? Vids? I think both depends on quality of the file itself if that's the case.

Does your desktop look sharp? Mine looks pretty darn nice, and movies really depends on quality of the file.

 

Nothing looked sharp, worst of all desktop and text. Moving images look better due to motion blue etc, but something's definitely setup wrong on my end...

Specs indicate the Bravia's true resolution is indeed 1920x1080. Their motion technology doubles the refresh rate to 120hz through interpolation which I take to mean that native refresh is 60hz...

Everything else we plugged in (hd cable via hdmi, ps3 via hdmi, etc) works fine and looks gorgeous, just not my laptop's hdmi.

I'll do two things when I see him next:

1. try vga out
2. try hdmi out again, with updated drivers and play around with my settings.

 

Sorry I couldn't help more.

Connecting M1330 to cheap Olevia 47" LCD was very simple (plug and play like PS3).

 

Yeah that is strange to me. I guess I should try it when I get home on my plasma. I would think that a computer is just another source. A highley configurable source. Can you send it 120hz? Or does it just upconvert everything? I would really try to find some tech specs. It could be 59hz that it really needs. Or maybe there is a way to turn off the upping of the refresh rate?

 

I also have an XBR4 try using the "full pixel" mode in the video screen setting.

 

I've hooked my 1330 via HDMI up to a Sony KDL-46W3000 1080P a few times. It generally worked ok. One time I couldn't get the video to show on the TV but after turning things ion/off a few times it then came up. The other times it shoed up no problem and I could cycle through Fn + F8 also.

Set the TV to "Full Pixel" mode under the "Screen" settings on the tv. Set the 1330 video output to 1920x1080. Should be all good and looks quite good on the TV.

One issue I have is with audio over HDMI. I go and set HDMI audio to default as required but then I never get audio out of the right channel until I put the computer to sleep then wake it back up then audio works fine.

 

Solution:

I updated my Nvidia driver, and then in the Nvidia control panel, under Flat Panel scaling, I chose "no scaling" and the output worked. I don't know whether it was that setting I changed or the update.

 

have you guys tried to mess with your TV's settings? like with my TV, the hdmi default theatre selection is natural, which is 4:3, and i have to change it to Full, which is 16:9, and therefore, fills up the entire screen

 

It wasn't the TV's scaling, I bet it was the 1330's graphics driver doing some weird Nvidia scaling.

Fortunately, I'm not having any issues with having to put the laptop to "sleep", etc. Sorry I can't help there.

For audio, is there anyway to make it so that I don't have to manually switch the sound output to hdmi?