32" 1080 TV looks better at 1680x1050 on computer...why?

[pwrmx24]

I have the Samsung UN32UE5000F. Its a 32" TV 16:9 1920x1080 60hz (120hz Samsung Clear motion) spec'd TV.
I'm hooked up using HDMI cable from a GTX 760 on W Vista HP. When i select 1920x1080 the outer parts of the screen are missing and the text looks bad. i.e. pixelated... Not sure what the problem is. 1680x1050 actually looks great. I can get all the screen on the TV by selecting P.Size on the remote but again the text looks really bad.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Almost all TVs come set up with overscan on the HDMI inputs by default, for historical reasons.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

There should be an option marked something like "1:1 scaling", "Dot by dot", or similar.

 

[noidea_77]

Almost all TVs come set up with overscan on the HDMI inputs by default, for historical reasons.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

There should be an option marked something like "1:1 scaling", "Dot by dot", or similar.

And if it's not in the TV menu, there is an over-/underscan parameter somewhere in the NVIDIA control panel. Try to change that as well.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Almost all TVs come set up with overscan on the HDMI inputs by default, for historical reasons.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

There should be an option marked something like "1:1 scaling", "Dot by dot", or similar.

And if it's not in the TV menu, there is an over-/underscan parameter somewhere in the NVIDIA control panel. Try to change that as well.

That's significantly lower quality and higher latency, though. Not scaling something is far better than scaling it twice.

 

[noidea_77]

Almost all TVs come set up with overscan on the HDMI inputs by default, for historical reasons.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

There should be an option marked something like "1:1 scaling", "Dot by dot", or similar.

And if it's not in the TV menu, there is an over-/underscan parameter somewhere in the NVIDIA control panel. Try to change that as well.

That's significantly lower quality and higher latency, though. Not scaling something is far better than scaling it twice.

And from what he wrote so far, we don't know, which method will result in a double scaling! It might be mine or yours. That depends on what the overscan is set to now.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

I'd say it's very unlikely to be in the PC. Almost all TVs come set up with overscan by default, whereas PCs basically don't.

 

[pwrmx24]

Thanks for answering guys. VERY helpful! Well I went to the Nvidia control panel and my scaling options are
aspect ratio, full screen, and no scaling then perform scaling on display or GPU. So I think i want no scaling.
My TV has size selections of: 16:9, Screen Fit, wide fit, and 4:3. Screen fit seem to be the best. I followed these two posts:
http://www.ctho.org/blog/2011/09/using-a-samsung-lcd-tv-as-a-computer-monitor-hdmidvi/
https://www.katescomment.com/tv-monitor-how-to-fix-overscan-zoom/

I will try movie mode and game mode to see which is better.
If you have any other ideas......thanks!

 

[pwrmx24]

Also when i searched Nvidia control panel help it has an article called "Resizing your desktop to fit the screen".
It all makes sense now! Who knew. I spent and hour chatting w/a Samsung support person and they didn't even know what overscan was. Geez.
I think now i just need to play w/the display setting I guess.