laptop to tv (HDMI)

[middots3]

thanks for looking

anyway whenever i connect my laptop to my flat screen TV with a HDMI cable, the picture on the screen is very small.
i want to know how to know how i could make the picture fit the screen?

thanks for any help

[chroma]

increase the resoloution of your second monitor.

Right click on your desktop, select properties (or customise in Vista) then get to display properties.
Click on your 2nd monitor and slide the bar up to a decent resoloution.

There may be a set of options included in your driver configuration, this is dependant on your card though.

[middots3]

this didnt work ?

[chroma]

there will be an option somewhere in your driver settings to specify output of 2ndary monitors (HDMI,SVideo,VGA,DVI etc)
there should also be a wizard to allow you to configure things automagicaly.

Ive got options on my gforce drivers, ATI however has been known to be a bit of a nightmare on the driver side of things.

[rugby39]

Can anybody tell me what cable you use for connecting laptop to tv, and the best one of the lot please

[chroma]

Can anybody tell me what cable you use for connecting laptop to tv, and the best one of the lot please

Composite (yellow phono lead): Blends every signal together into one, gives you a noisy picture.

SVideo (black cable with a wierd looking din adaptor interface, like an old ps/2 mouse): Splits the chroma and luminance (colors and brightness essentialy) quality is better than composite but still has its drawbacks.

Component (3 connectors labeled Y, Pb, and Pr for analogue or Y, Cb, Cr for digital) This is simmilar to SVideo in that it splits up the Chroma and Luma signals, Y being Luma and Pb being the difference between the Blue and luma signal and Pr being the difference between the red and luma signals.
It essentialy pushes out 2 coloured pictures that look like Negatives and a single Black and white picture for highligting brightness levels.
Quality is dependant on forms, analogue is good, digital is better.

VGA (15pin Dsub adaptor) splits the video into red green and blue analogue pictures. quality is great up to a certain frequency then crosstalk becomes an issue, pushing higher resoloutions increases the frequency

DVI (wierd square, rectangular angled plug depending on standards like DVI-i DVI-a DVI-d etc)
Digital method of transfering video, it splits everything up into red green and blue like VGA but the monitor does the complicated job of processing the video, quality varies depending on monitors used however.

HDMI (D shaped plug with a bar with 19 connectors in the middle) Takes the best bits from all the rest, wraps them together then throws in 8channel audio for good measure.
Has its drawbacks regarding frequencies and certain resoloutions. however its the best of the bunch.