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Windows 11 "Cast to Device" performs in very poor quality

I have a 65" TCL Android TV and I'd like to cast videos and pictures from my PC to the TV. The TV and the PC both connected to a fast router by cable. My PC identifies the TV and list it in the &...
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Screen cut off on linux

Setup i5 6600 Intel HD 530 Internal SSD with Windows 11 External HDD with Debian 12 (KDE Plasma, X11 and Wayland) Dp to HDMI dongle (Motherboard doesn't have HDMI and tv doesn't have DP) Old Majestic ...
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Windows 10 monitor detection with a HDMI switcher. Is there a way to force a refresh?

My pc has an Nvidia 1060 with a single HDMI cable plugged in. I've recently added an HDMI switcher and the cable now goes directly into the HDMI switcher. The switcher is quite simple with two outputs....
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The screen quality on my brand new TV is messed up when i use it as monitor for my pc (HDMI). It's fuzzy and blurry

Not just text, everything is a little blurry. My PC didn't have an issue with previous monitors and this TV is brand new, just unboxed. The resolution and scaling is set right In the TV screen ...
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Laptop hooked to TV shows wrong resolution when only displaying on TV, but correct when duplicating displays

I know there are a lot of posts about TV resolution, but none seemed to match my scenario. I'm running Windows 10 enterprise. I have a laptop, native resolution set to 1080. TV's resolution is also ...
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1080p HD TV as Monitor - What Determines Resolution?

I am trying to use a 46" Sony Bravia 1080p HD TV (from 2010) as a computer monitor. To connect it to the PC, I bought a DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable that "supports video resolutions up to 1920x1200 and ...
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Windows 10 fonts look ragged in 1920x1080 HD TV

I connected a Microsoft Surface Book 2 running Windows 10 to a 1920 x 1080 Philco PTV42E60DSWN TV (HDMI port) and the borders of fonts (but also in images) look all ragged (see comparison to 1920 x ...
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TV's stated resolution of 1024 (h) x 1080 (v) and aspect ratio (16:9) don't match up [closed]

Sorry if this isn't the right SE forum. Our TV is a Fujitsu Plasmavision P42HTA51E. In the Specifications section of the manual (which you can view here) it says WIDE PLASMA DISPLAY Series Name: ...
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Windows 10 using correct resolution on HDMI to TV

I have a UHD TV connected over HDMI 2.0, this is the only display. In Windows, resolution is set to 3840x2160@60Hz. Whenever I turn on my PC first and the TV afterwards, the TV reports an unsupported ...
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Finding what is specifically wrong with resolution on TV-as-monitor

Apart from my regular monitor (Acer GN246HL), I'm using a little TV (Memorex MLT1931) as a second monitor (through HDMI -- my graphics card is an AMD Radeon 7800 series -- device manager/radeon ...
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How can I fix letterboxing / stretching?

I'm using a Samsung syncmaster 2032mw TV as a pc monitor, it works perfectly fine over vga but I want sound and there's no space / sockets for the speakers I have. I opted to use HDMI which is perfect ...
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Why doesn't a 4K TV give 4K resolution?

I have designed the front page for a website that contains a lot of information. I have fixed the size of the page to 3530x2070 which should easily fit on a 4K screen with a resolution of 3840x2160. &...
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Tv shows lower res than PC is outputting

I just upgraded my graphics card, on the old one I used a dvi-I to vga adapter to my tv, however if i tried using an HDMI cable I got the proplem where the tv would show a pixzelated screen, I assumed ...
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watch a 1080p movie on 1080p TV on my computer that has a 720p display

Good morning everyone, I have a question. If I watch a 1080p movie on 1080p TV (Or 4K movie on 4K TV), on my computer that has a 720p display, so is it run as 1080p (Or 4K) or just as 720p? PS: My ...
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I'm using a TV as a monitor. Why are my resolution choices so limited when the TV supports more?

I am trying to use this tv as a monitor. As you can see, this tv supports 1920x1080 full HD. However, when I plug it into my Windows computer (which can easily support this, it supports it on other ...
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