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    Have any of you guys tried hooking up your laptop to LCD TV ?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Scott111, Jan 1, 2011.

  1. Scott111

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    I'm going to buy soon a XPS 15. I have a 26''1080p LCD tv and I'm planning to game with it on the tv with a HDMI cable.

    Do guys know of any draw backs ? I'm hoping the GT420M will be powerful enough to run games at 1080p res at medium settings.
     
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    It's not.

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    Well I guess I could just run thegame in 720p and have black bars on the sides and the top and bottom. Still it would be bigger than 15.6''
     
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    It really depends on the game, I play Street Fighter IV @ 1080p hooked up to my 32" FHD TV and it plays great @60FPS. Black OPS I play @ 720p and it's fine and there are no black bars, 720p is the same aspect ratio as 1080p so it fills the whole screen.
     
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    @Scott111

    If you're LCD HDTV is worth anything, it will display a 1080p image with a 720p source. Blowing it up, so to speak. You won't have black bars.
     
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    As ikjadoon said it should scale it, both the XPS and a decent tv have 16:9 scale so it shouldn't have any black bars. But also as kgh00007 said it's going to depend 100% on the game, but you are going to have to do some OCing to play any recent games on medium at 1080p.
     
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