TV being used as a Monitor. Font is blurry.

First of all, this may be a little dumb that we did this. But my mom wanted a new monitor for her Acer desktop since hers is broken at the base. So, thankfully we had a small flat screen TV that can be used as a monitor that I hooked up via HDMI for her. The size of the TV is roughly the same size as the monitor that goes to my HP.

The only issue is that the font looks a little blurry.

I am trying to figure out how to fix that.

It is set at 1080p.

I hope you can all help.

Thanks, Jesse.

It's an Element ELEFW248.

I fixed the blurriness, but now it's too large.

vgkfan83 said:

Change it back to the setting that you had....


Make sure you are using HDMI input


Cycle among picture modes: Standard/Dynamic/Movie/Natural/User.

See which one of those settings are the best.


That's about all you can do.

I am using HDMI. Thanks for your help. :)

The panel resolution is 1366 x 768 and 60 Hz so that is what you set your Graphics to.
Select input source HDMI obviously with an appropriate cable.

Windows 10 Settings > System > Display.
In the resolution box it should say 1366 x 768 (Recommended), if not scroll down the box and select that.
In the Scale box put 100% (Recommended).
That should be OK.

You might need to alter the scale a bit but I doubt it.

Feed it other resolutions and the TV will scale it up and down with a poor result.

Set the aspect ratio to auto

RoasterMen said:

Set the aspect ratio to auto

It won’t let me. Can I do it in Windows?

You can normally set it via TV or via drivers. However, make sure youre plugged your PC onto the HDMI port that says with small text something like (DVI) or (PC) - not all the ports are "valid out of the box" for PC use in TVs.

Via HDMI you have overscan issues (without configuring TV/drivers) with aspect ratio.