40inch HDTV Win 10 says 150% scaling recommended? Huh?

[jarablue]

Why is Win 10 telling me that my 40inch Samsung HDTV that I am using as my pc monitor, scaling at 150% is recommended and not 100%?

All my fonts look sharp and crisp at 150% also in comparison at 100%. 100% isn't bad and works fine but everything is smooth as butter at 150% scaling. But stuff is huge at 1080p on a 40inch at 150% scaling.

Anyway to get this butter aliased font with 1080p resolution on the desktop?

What exactly is going on here?

 

[Decibel]

Egad 1080p w/ 150% scaling! I run 100% on my 4k 40inch tv.

Have you tried playing around with the ClearType settings? Also, are you sure that you're running at 4:4:4 so you can get the smoothing from subpixel rendering?

 

[jarablue]

Positively running 444. Did the pink test 444 image. Worked fine, passed. Text looks fine at 100%. I am just wondering why at 150% it is so much more smooth and clear. Also why the hell is win 10 recommending 150% scaling on a 1080p 40 inch tv instead of 100% scaling?

Ran clear type tuner and the text is sharp, don't get me wrong. But 150% it is really smooth and exact.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Windows probably recommends 150% because it detects it is a TV, and people sit further from TVs than monitors.

Text looks sharp at 150% because more pixels are used to render the fonts. (kinda like anti-aliasing)


You should be using 1920x1080 with 100% scaling if you're sitting close enough.