1080p on 720p tv

[AliRaza]

I just bought a vizio 32in tv as a replacement for my monitor (E320i-A0 | VIZIO).
At walmart it was tagged as 1080p. i got home plugged it into my pc via hdmi cable and it displayed 720p. I went into settings and selected 1080x1920 which it is currently showing and running on.

I looked up online and vizio doesnt have a 1080p 32in led smart tv. but my tv is still able to show 1080 even if it were the 720p model.

When i say it is able to display 1080p, i dont mean up on the corner it shows 1080p, the screen gets alot smaller in 1080 than in 720. and my games also show 1080p select able.

 

[Sasqui]

I just bought a vizio 32in tv as a replacement for my monitor (E320i-A0 | VIZIO).
At walmart it was tagged as 1080p. i got home plugged it into my pc via hdmi cable and it displayed 720p. I went into settings and selected 1080x1920 which it is currently showing and running on.

I looked up online and vizio doesnt have a 1080p 32in led smart tv. but my tv is still able to show 1080 even if it were the 720p model.

When i say it is able to display 1080p, i dont mean up on the corner it shows 1080p, the screen gets alot smaller in 1080 than in 720. and my games also show 1080p select able.

You probably have a "virtual" 1080p, where part of the image is actually not showing on the screen. Specs for the monitor are "Native resolution 1366 x 768"

http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/vizio-e320i-a0/4507-6482_7-35471751.html

 

[newtekie1]

Yep, 1366x768 is the resolution of the panel. So the image is being scaled down somewhere(either the TV or your graphics card). It would be better to drop the resolution down to match the panel in the TV, any time scaling is used the quality of the image is reduced.

 

[AliRaza]

what do you mean part of the image?

 

[Black Panther]

I'm not sure about this but if you take a screenshot (print screen button) of your desktop, save it in mspaint and upload it and post it here, it will show the size of the image I guess?

Like this printscreen I took of my monitor, it shows the size of the full image in the yellow bar above which is exactly the resolution of my monitor:

Spoiler

 

[newtekie1]

what do you mean part of the image?

Pixels that the computer is outputing are not being displayed on the TV. They are either being dropped or combined to lower the pixel count to match what the TV can display.

 

[AliRaza]

 

[Ralfies]

I'm not sure about this but if you take a screenshot (print screen button) of your desktop, save it in mspaint and upload it and post it here, it will show the size of the image I guess?

Like this printscreen I took of my monitor, it shows the size of the full image in the yellow bar above which is exactly the resolution of my monitor:

Spoiler

http://img.techpowerup.org/130626/Untitled477.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/130626/Untitled011.png

It just takes the screenshot at whatever your resolution is set at. I just set my resolution to 1600x900 and the screenshot was that size even though it was stretched to fit 2560x1440.

Vizio does have a 1080p 32", but it's not your model. You should take it back to walmart and get an actual 1080p monitor.

 

[erocker]

The TV has 1366x768 physical pixels. No more no less regardless on what you set the resolution to, it will scale to fit within the pixels the monitor has.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

I don't think that method will work. When you screen cap from a PC, it does not read what is actually on the screen. It takes the image from the buffer of the GPU for what is being output to the screen, which due to the resolution, setting will be 1920 x 1080.

After the image reaches your screen, its internal computer will recompile the image to match its actual resolution 1366 x 768. What you PC is output and what you are seeing are not technically the same image.

When the specs said it "supported 1080p" it meant as a input resolution because its internals can scale the image down to fit the screen. If you TV did not support it, you would get a blank screen because it would not know what the signal was suppose to be.

 

[AliRaza]

ok but then when i input a 720p image it should still be of the same scale and should look the same as a 1080p image.

But both 720p and 1080p are different on my screen. 720p is big and clear, say magnified. 1080p is small and hard to see from a distance if looking at small characters.

 

[Ralfies]

ok but then when i input a 720p image it should still be of the same scale and should look the same as a 1080p image.

But both 720p and 1080p are different on my screen. 720p is big and clear, say magnified. 1080p is small and hard to see from a distance if looking at small characters.

No, when you select 1080p it is scaling down the image to fit 1366x768 pixels. This is why it is small and unclear. On a 32" screen 720p should be huge. That is how it's supposed to look.

 

[newtekie1]

ok but then when i input a 720p image it should still be of the same scale and should look the same as a 1080p image.

But both 720p and 1080p are different on my screen. 720p is big and clear, say magnified. 1080p is small and hard to see from a distance if looking at small characters.

No, the scale will change. Because the TV has to cramp 1920x1080 pixels in.

 

[AliRaza]

Then i guess walmart had 1080p sticker on the wrong screen

 

[erocker]

Is this what you bought? http://store.vizio.com/e320ia0.html WalMart link: http://www.walmart.com/ip/VIZIO-32-Class-LED-720p-60Hz-SMART-HDTV-3.34-E320I-A0/21311576

 

[AliRaza]

yes but the side ports are different from the picture, only 1 hdmin and 1 usb, red and white audio jack and sdif audio

 

[GoFigureItOut]

I have a 26" Vizio TV and it's rated for 720p. However, I was able to display picture from my computer, DVD player, and PS3 all in 1080p. A year later, both HDMI ports failed on me. Not sure if it was caused by the picture quality being overly produced (sorry, I lack a technical term). Anyways, be careful.