Quick question about lcds

[mobusta1]

This is probably a really dumb question but I really have no idea..

If I hook up my computer to a lcd tv that has a 1080p native and I watch a movie on it from my laptop that has a native of 1680x1050, will I see the movie at the TV's native (
1080p) or the laptops native?

 

[HardwareGuru]

How are you hooking your notebook to your TV? HDMI? Does your notebook have an HDMI out? If so, you can set it at 1920 x 1080.1680 x 1050 is the max or native resolution of the laptops lcd screen. But, this does not mean that the video graphics in the notebook will only support 1680 x 1050 resolution. I have a 14" IBM Thinkpad notebook and it display 1400 x 1050 res on the notebook screen. But, If I connect it to my 24" external monitor, I can go up to 1920 x 1200 res which is the max res on my 24".

 

[Nenu]

Whatever res you connect at, when you full screen the video, it will be scaled up to that res to fill the screen.
It works exactly the same as smaller videos on your current display.

 

[mobusta1]

How are you hooking your notebook to your TV? HDMI? Does your notebook have an HDMI out? If so, you can set it at 1920 x 1080.1680 x 1050 is the max or native resolution of the laptops lcd screen. But, this does not mean that the video graphics in the notebook will only support 1680 x 1050 resolution. I have a 14" IBM Thinkpad notebook and it display 1400 x 1050 res on the notebook screen. But, If I connect it to my 24" external monitor, I can go up to 1920 x 1200 res which is the max res on my 24".

Yes the notebook has a HDMi 1.3 input and so does the tv (LG 42LG50). The graphics card in the notebook is a nvidia 9600gt 512MB.

Does it mean i'm set?

 

[HardwareGuru]

Yup, my 8800GT video card can adjust to 1920 x 1080 resolution. You should be good. Your 9600GT card should have no problem also.