Resolution of my 720p HDTV doesn't match with my Y500?

I tried connecting my laptop to the TV but since the native resolution for the Y500 is 1920x1080, it doesn't quite fit on my 720p Vizio.
I tried the other settings as well like 1366, and 1680 and neither of them match. Is there any way to get it to fit on screen?

 

What do you mean it doesn't match up? Are you trying to display on one screen (the monitor) or two screens? If you plug it into a monitor and the picture doesn't stretch through the entire screen, you either have to adjust the zoom on the tv itself, or you can go into the nvidia video settings and change it so that the aspect ratio is set to aspect ratio scaling mode.

 

So regardless of what resolution you set the image doesn't fit completely on the screen? There are black bars on the sides or areas on the edges that are cut off? Sounds like the the TV is overscanning or underscanning the image it's receiving from the laptop. You could go into the Nvidia Control Panel to resize the image horizontally and vertically or adjust the zoom on the TV, but those aren't true fixes. You are basically scaling the image and losing 1:1 pixel mapping from the source to the output and thus lowering image quality.

If this is the problem, what you really need to do is to first set the resolution to the TV's native. Then, go into your TV menu and for the setting where you set the aspect ratio (it's usually called Picture Size or Picture Mode) instead of using 16:9 use Just Scan (or whatever it's called on your particular TV). That should line up the image perfectly on your TV with no black bars or spilling over.

 

This sounds like a problem with the TV, not the laptop

 

Okay so I played around with the settings and I think I've got it.
But prior to this I was resizing it through the control panel for Nvidia and I don't know if it's like this now because of that or if it's truly fixed, is there a way to reset the resized image to default? Just want to make sure I'm doing this right.
And I looked up the TV and apparently it's 1366x768 and 16:9, so I don't why I was having problems. And if this is the case, should I put my rez as 1920x1080(native) as well as the TV? Or something else entirely different for the both of them?
I just want it to display at it's fullest without losing quality and all that fake resizing crap.

EDIT: So I unchecked enable resizing from the panel and now everything is back to the way it was. Am I supposed to 'extend displays' instead of duplicating them and change the displays for both of them until I can get it? Cause when I do this the TV loses icons.

 

What are you trying to accomplish? If you're trying to duplicate or extend there's no easy way to get the image to perfectly fill both your TV and laptop display because of the resolution difference. I can't help you with that because I've never been able to figure it out either.

But if you're only trying to use your TV as the primary display then follow the instructions in my previous post. First go to the Nvidia Control Panel and set everything back to default. Then in Windows set it to show desktop only on the TV and make sure the resolution is set to 1366x768. And lastly on the TV itself set the Picture Mode or Picture Size to Just Scan. That will make the image display perfectly on the TV.

 

Just trying to get a good enough image on TV for movies and games...without doing the resizing thing.
I would do the scanning but I don't even think there's an option for it on my TV.

 

There is it's probably called something else and you haven't found it yet. Look at your TV manual if you need to.

If you need to do any sort or resizing you'll be losing image quality. If you did it right then you won't have to.