Plasma not displaying PC correctly

[jlindenmuth@gmail.com]

I recently setup a Toshiba 50HP66 50" plasma in my office's conference
room in an attempt to use it for presentations instead of a
projector. I hooked up a normal Dell PC (with DVI card and DVI->VGA
dongle) to the PC input on the TV. The resulting picture on the TV is
washed out and blurry. I tried all different resolutions to no
avail. Any thoughts on how to fix? Thanks.

[Dennis' Newsgroups]

When using a PC with a fixed pixel display (LCD, DLP, Plasma, DiLA, SRXD)
your best bet is to use the native resolution of the display otherwise the
display's internal processing is going to scale it to its native resolution
and that can end up with very poor results. Matching the scan rate is also
recommended - I would consult the manual for the display for the specs.




Dennis

<jlindenmuth@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1170622964.320317.215140@v33g2000cwv.googlegr oups.com...
>I recently setup a Toshiba 50HP66 50" plasma in my office's conference
> room in an attempt to use it for presentations instead of a
> projector. I hooked up a normal Dell PC (with DVI card and DVI->VGA
> dongle) to the PC input on the TV. The resulting picture on the TV is
> washed out and blurry. I tried all different resolutions to no
> avail. Any thoughts on how to fix? Thanks.
>

[AZ Nomad]

On 4 Feb 2007 13:02:44 -0800, jlindenmuth@gmail.com <jlindenmuth@gmail.com> wrote:


>I recently setup a Toshiba 50HP66 50" plasma in my office's conference
>room in an attempt to use it for presentations instead of a
>projector. I hooked up a normal Dell PC (with DVI card and DVI->VGA
>dongle) to the PC input on the TV. The resulting picture on the TV is
>washed out and blurry. I tried all different resolutions to no
>avail. Any thoughts on how to fix? Thanks.

It's possible that the video card is a piece of shit. Has it ever been tried
on another VGA display? Also, are you using an OK VGA cable? The cheapest
VGA cables ($5 variety) can cause problems.

And as the other poster said, made sure that the card is running at the
displays native resolution. However, is VGA fixed at 4:3? I have an
an inexpensive 1366x768 LCD display and I was forced to run it at 1024x768.
It simply wouldn't accept 1366x768.