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Hey guys, I have this video card: ATI 9200, 128 mb "All in wonder" card. I bought a 26" Vizio LCD, which has a resolution of 1366x768.

Now, in my properties of my video card, I can only find 1360x768. I put it to this setting.

I copied this from the Vizio manual online if this helps.

http://www.burtmanindustries.com/images/xyz/lcd_res.jpg]Specsheet from Vizio

http://www.vizio.com/media/products/pdf ... Manual.pdf

It does not look right on the new 26" lcd!!! I see less on the screen than I did with my 17" square LCD. I don't get it. Everything is much bigger, my email program gets cutoff and I see less of my in/out box, everything it too big.

If I change the resolution to 1360x1024, it helps images and my email program, but text is fuzzy, and print looks weird.

Here is what my screen looks like on a square 17" LCD monitor

Here is what my screen looks like on a the widescreen 26" LCD monitor

What can I do to get this 26" monitor to look right??? I don't want to see less area with this bigger monitor. Help.

Screenshots are going to look ok on our monitors, so if you want to still show us, then you will need to take an actual photo of it and upload it somewhere.

Fuzy text appears when LCDs aren't set running at their native resolution (the number of physical pixels they have).

There should be an option to create your own monitor resolutions, try googling custom resolutions or something, see if you can make one and it will display correctly on your TV.

Dan

Edit: I re-read your post and it sounds like the only thing that is happening is that things are looking bigger, and you have less screen real estate than you did with the dedicated PC monitor?

This is to be expected as you have gone from a 17" with 1280x1024
to a 26" with 1366x768. You have lost 259 actual pixels in height (and gained 86 across) and stretched them all out over a bigger distance making the resultant picture larger.

You don't have much choice to expand your screen real estate, you can either put up with the blurry non native resolution of 1366x1024 or stick with the crisper 1366x768 one. On 768 mode you can change the system font and icon settings to make them smaller, but you wont be able to gain any more actual desktop space.

It has nothing to do with your monitor or TV its how your connecting to the TV. Its most likely either VGA or Svideo. Those always look bad. Its not recommended you use TVs as monitors. It doesn't work. The only place they look good is if your playing a game.