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I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
slightly smudged.

Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?

Cathy

 

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> I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
> slightly smudged.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?

CRTs are natural blury.


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[Dan]

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My GF actually has the same problem with the Averatec 3150H notebook. The
external lcd is hooked up to an analog output. Analog lcd's never look as
crisp as digital ones. You could try adjusting the phase clock of the lcd
which might help.
"cathy" <cwells21@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
> slightly smudged.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>
> Cathy

 

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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 21:02:23 +0200, Roland Mösl <founder@pege.org>
wrote:

>> I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
>> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
>> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
>> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
>> slightly smudged.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
>> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>
>CRTs are natural blury.
It's not a CRT. It's a 17" flat panel Viewsonic, and when I had my
slightly older laptop hooked up to it, the resolution was crystal
sharp and clear. That older laptop was a HP with a 15" screen, and I
never had any problem with hooking it into the Viewsonic. Like I said,
it was sharp and clear. It's only with this laptop, that has a 12 inch
screen, that I have a blurryness problem when I connect it to the 17"
flat panel Viewsonic.
Cathy

 

[Leo]

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"cathy" <cwells21@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
> slightly smudged.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>
> Cathy


turn on ClearType. Windows XP supports it. OSX doesn't, so the text on my PB
is slightly blurry. Windows laptops should have clean type as long as the
font smoothing method is selectly correctly.

 

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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 04:07:45 GMT, "leo" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote:

>"cathy" <cwells21@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:vnsql05o0m6o3mb5p6nqm1qooq3njekm64@4ax.com...
>>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
>> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
>> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
>> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
>> slightly smudged.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
>> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>>
>> Cathy
>
>
>turn on ClearType. Windows XP supports it. OSX doesn't, so the text on my PB
>is slightly blurry. Windows laptops should have clean type as long as the
>font smoothing method is selectly correctly.
>
How do I turn on Clear Type?
Cathy

 

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cathy <cwells21@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>[LCD] monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry.

What's the native resolution of your external LCD monitor? Try
setting your laptop to output that resolution.

 

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Control Panel>Display>Apperance>Effects>"Use the Followins. . ." >Clear Type

IS.

> How do I turn on Clear Type?
> Cathy

 

[Guest]

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You didn't say if the external display is a CRT or an LCD, and if it's
an LCD, is it digital or analog?

Without more information, your question can't be answered.


cathy wrote:

> I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
> slightly smudged.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>
> Cathy

 

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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:18:30 GMT, Barry Watzman
<WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:

>You didn't say if the external display is a CRT or an LCD, and if it's
>an LCD, is it digital or analog?
>
>Without more information, your question can't be answered.
>
>
>cathy wrote:
>
>> I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
>> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
>> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
>> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
>> slightly smudged.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
>> and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>>
>> Cathy

IT's a Viewsonic VA720 flat panel. Not sure if it's digital or analog.
Cathy

 

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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:48:19 GMT, "IS" <y@y.com> wrote:

>
>Control Panel>Display>Apperance>Effects>"Use the Followins. . ." >Clear Type
>
>IS.
>
>> How do I turn on Clear Type?
>> Cathy
>
OK, that seems to have helped a little bit, but it's still sort
of....smudgy. THat's kind of the only way I can describe it.

Cathy

 

[Leo]

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<William P.N. Smith> wrote in message
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> cathy <cwells21@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
>>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>>is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>>[LCD] monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry.
>
> What's the native resolution of your external LCD monitor? Try
> setting your laptop to output that resolution.


17" LCDs usually have a resolution of 1280x1024

 

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It's almost certainly an analog interface.

Your "fuzziness" could be caused by either or both of two major factors:

1. Laptops video card not running at the native resolution of the
desktop LCD display panel. I'm going to guess that you are feeding
1024x768 image into an LCD panel with a 1280x1024 native resolution.
That will cause the problem that you are having. The fix is to change
the resolution on the laptop to 1280x1024 if that's possible (it may not
be).

2. The dot-clock frequency and/or phase of the viewsonic monitor may
not be properly adjusted for the laptop. To fix this, you need to
display a test pattern on the display and adjust the dot clock in the
Viewsonic's menu. Do this only after you have addressed the resolution
issue. The test pattern that you need is single-pixel wide vertical
bars, alternating black and white, across the entire screen.


cathy wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:18:30 GMT, Barry Watzman
> <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>You didn't say if the external display is a CRT or an LCD, and if it's
>>an LCD, is it digital or analog?
>>
>>Without more information, your question can't be answered.
>>
>>
>>cathy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>>>is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>>>monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
>>>setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
>>>available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
>>>same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
>>>slightly smudged.
>>>
>>>Is there anything I can do to make the display on the monitor as clear
>>>and crisp as it is on the laptop screen?
>>>
>>>Cathy
>
>
> IT's a Viewsonic VA720 flat panel. Not sure if it's digital or analog.
> Cathy

 

[Guest]

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My suggestion is NOT to turn on "clear type". I find that it makes
things worse, not better.


cathy wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:48:19 GMT, "IS" <y@y.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Control Panel>Display>Apperance>Effects>"Use the Followins. . ." >Clear Type
>>
>>IS.
>>
>>
>>>How do I turn on Clear Type?
>>>Cathy
>>
> OK, that seems to have helped a little bit, but it's still sort
> of....smudgy. THat's kind of the only way I can describe it.
>
> Cathy

 

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Out of all the replies, I think this one is the most relevant.

Try going into display settings and adjusting the resolution of the 2nd
monitor (do you have win xp?) - on my laptop I can increase the resolution
to above that of my 1024x768 laptop display - up to 2000 and something. You
need to find the resolution that matches your flat screen. 1280x1024 is a
good place to start.

Duncan.

"leo" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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> <William P.N. Smith> wrote in message
> news:g11ul0pv08vfalfruavvppio6hcfn0059c@4ax.com...
>> cathy <cwells21@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
>>>I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
>>>is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
>>>[LCD] monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry.
>>
>> What's the native resolution of your external LCD monitor? Try
>> setting your laptop to output that resolution.
>
>
> 17" LCDs usually have a resolution of 1280x1024
>

 

[Leo]

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"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> My suggestion is NOT to turn on "clear type". I find that it makes things
> worse, not better.
>
>
> cathy wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:48:19 GMT, "IS" <y@y.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Control Panel>Display>Apperance>Effects>"Use the Followins. . ." >Clear
>>>Type
>>>
>>>IS.
>>>
>>>
>>>>How do I turn on Clear Type?
>>>>Cathy
>>>
>> OK, that seems to have helped a little bit, but it's still sort
>> of....smudgy. THat's kind of the only way I can describe it.
>>
>> Cathy

Why worse when the display is LCD?

 

[Guest]

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Cleartype makes sharp edges fuzzy. That's my experience on multiple
systems. If you prefer it, fine. I don't. Most of the people who I've
shown it to don't. [Most users don't know what it is, and don't know
how to turn it off or on.]


leo wrote:

> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:415F1FB0.70808@neo.rr.com...
>
>>My suggestion is NOT to turn on "clear type". I find that it makes things
>>worse, not better.
>>
>>
>>cathy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:48:19 GMT, "IS" <y@y.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Control Panel>Display>Apperance>Effects>"Use the Followins. . ." >Clear
>>>>Type
>>>>
>>>>IS.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>How do I turn on Clear Type?
>>>>>Cathy
>>>>
>>>OK, that seems to have helped a little bit, but it's still sort
>>>of....smudgy. THat's kind of the only way I can describe it.
>>>
>>>Cathy
>
>
> Why worse when the display is LCD?
>
>

 

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Roland Mösl wrote:

> CRTs are natural blury.

What a BS. The Sony FW900 on my desk for sure isn't blurry...

Benjamin

 

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cathy wrote:

> I have a laptop (running XP Pro) with a 12 inch screen. The resolution
> is set to 1024 x 768. When I hook the laptop up to my 17 inch external
> monitor, the display is just a tiny bit blurry. I've changed every
> setting I can think of (120dpi fonts, all the different resolutions
> available, true color vs high color, etc) but the display is still the
> same slightly blurry. It's most obvious in text - it looks just
> slightly smudged.

Well, sadly most laptops don't output a very good signal on the VGA
connector, and thus often provide a blurry picture on everything from
800x600 and even below that.

You can't do much in this case, sorry.

Benjamin

 

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"Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Roland Mösl wrote:
>
>> CRTs are natural blury.
>
> What a BS. The Sony FW900 on my desk for sure isn't blurry...
>
> Benjamin

I thought it was BS too until I look at a good LCD at very high resolution.
The fonts were very small but it was like laser edged much sharper than my
old LCDs. I compare this with my 21" CRT that I once used for graphics.