So one of my good friends recently gave me this busted TV because he thought I could probably fix what was wrong with it, well I did. I had to remove the power supply and solder three new capacitors onto the power supply with a higher uF rating so they wouldn't blow out again, and hopefully the the power supply wasn't poorly designed to have bad logic so the capacitors would blow out over extended use, time will tell on this. So far so good.

So my main question is, how does this TV support 1080i when the native resolution of the TV is 1366 x 768? I am little confused on this, as I have little A/V knowledge. I am guessing this why the TV can support 1080i, but not 1080p.

Also when I connect the TV to my laptop via the DVI to HDMI cable the TV acts as a secondary screen and my computer says the resolution is 1080i. I run Mac OS X on my laptop, and everything works great out of the box. When my roommate hooks up his computer to the TV and switches the resolution of the TV to 1080 in Windows 7 the picture on the screen is not filling up the whole screen thus leaving a black letter boxing around all four sides of the screen. Is there some way he can get the same 1080i resolution that I get on the MAC?

cheers
-iPatch

the tv display is native 720, when a 1080i signal comes in the tv shrinks it down to fit on the 720 display.

similiar when a native 1080 display receives a 720 signal, you'll either get black bars on the top or sides or both or the tv will stretch the signal to fit on the chip by upconverting, or strething the image.

Nice work on the fix. It seems most electronics these days that fail just need bad capacitors or resistors replaced. Not a hard job, but more work than most are willing to try/do.

...that or a backlight inverter...

As for the question at hand: HB is right, the physical panel is 768 which supports 720 quite nicely (never understood why they do that since its not evenly divisible) ...but 1080 has to be downconverted, and to get a reasonable picture quality it might size it to something funny with letterboxing. Check the tv settings for 'input format' or something like that and it may have scaling options. You're better to tell the computer to output 1280x768p (tv native resolution)