Fuzzy text - LG Projector with R52 Thinkpad

OK, I spoke to the guy at LG, and he said there's not much that can be tweaked via my HS201 projector. Rather, he said I need to tweak my thinkpad.

He had misguidedly advised me to switch to 800x600 pixels (from my ideal default of 1024x768). But that made it, so that sprawling websites would require tweaking via Firefox to ensure that text remain within the screen's display, causing text to become microscopic.

Furthemore, when I toggle Function-F7 (which is a Lenovo quirk enabling people to toggle between Laptop display VS Wall Display VS Both)...
...the latter caused the Thinkpad resolution to automatically switch to its highest resolution, causing text to become VERY microscopic on the wall-projection.

So as of now, I have both my laptop display activated, as well as the Wall Display (from the LG projector).

Is there any way I can get the display to be:
(1) less fuzzy on the wall (yet same size as it is now)
(2) to display ONLY on wall NOT via thinkpad
(3) keep the lid closed on thinkpad permanently

Note that I already tweaked Contrast & Brightness via the Projector, so that it's now at optimal balance of contrast/brightness comfortable for me.

Also note that the text size of my laptop and that of the wall are identical, albeit the wall's is much fuzzier.

Finally, note that I'm using white poster board to project it on.

 

Im sure you know how pixel structure is made up, any time you take an image composed of pixels and render it again with a new number of pixels it has to pretty much "make a best guess" as to what the new pixels should contain.

It works pretty well for large graphics like movies or images but for something as precise as text its disastrous. You need to maintain a 1:1 pixel map between what is being rendered by your computer to what is being shown on screen or zoom in enough via a zoom tool as to overcome the re-rendering of the text.

To make it worse your doing a hardware scaling by the projector as compared to a higher quality software render done by your video card.

So answers.

1.)
Option: Use the resolution of your projector on your laptop, if this kills you time to get a higher resolution projector

Option: Zoom in with a tool so that text is large enough to resample to a more readable state.

2.)
Option: Most laptops have a hotkey that will toggle between monitor only, monitor + external display, and external display only. If it is not in there you can do it from the windows display manager

3.)
Option: Usually you can go into the windows power state controls and there will be something for "when I close the lid do X" normally it is set for something like go to sleep but you can change it to "do nothing"

However - I do not recommend this as the keyboard in many cases is a primary ventilation point for the system, it could overheat if it is in operation with the lid closed, also it may not be really great for your lcd screen, they can handle pretty high temperatures but if heat is building up from cpu/gpu they are not designed to handle temperatures in that range.

 

Vicious, thanks, though I should say oops, how do i close this thread (since I got too frustrated, so I returned it. See, aside from its fuzziness, it was outgassing chemicals due to how hot it ran. This is something nobody ever see's fit to report, for some reason I can't fathom. I strongly advise people with tiny rooms to beware of most hot-running electronics, since most of them emit chemicals.