DVI/HDMI Cable not giving desired results?

Hi, I currently have a Sony Bravia HD TV that does 720p/1080i resolution, and I wanted it to hook up to my computer so that I could watch videos in HD from the computer to the TV. Now Iv been managing to do it fine with 720p videos, even through an analouge connection. However, I recently have recieved a 1080p video, and a HDMI to DVI cable. Yet when hooked up, the picture on the TV is distorted, overstreteched, and when I try to watch the 1080p video it jumps about (I was told the TV should downscale it perfectly using this cable, but gives same if not worse results than using analouge). Can anyone help me with this? Thank-you

Dan

(The TV is a Sony Bravia KDL46S2010U 46" HD Ready LCD TV, thanks again)

Answer:
You have a 720p/1080i TV. It is quite likely that the TV can't handle 1080p input over HDMI.

Since your TV is 720p, set your Nvidia card resolution to 1365x765 (or 1365x720) and let the PC do all the scaling.
It sounds like your video card on your computer can;t handle that high of a quality video. What video card are you using?
You said the TV is HD Ready. That means you have no HD tuner built into the TV, it's just "READY" for one. It will work fine on Digital, but unless you get an HD tuner for it, you won't have as good a picture as you hoped. I'm surprised they didn't tell you that where you bought it. I found this link that explains the difference in HD Ready :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hd_ready#hd...
Sorry..IT WON'T do 1080P...

It's capable of 720 and 1080i.

The NATIVE resolution of the TV is 1366 x 768

1080 is shrunk down to fit the 768 display.they call that downscaling.

It was not BUILT to read 1080P signals, but the NEW ones this year have that capability in the HIGH END TVs..
Expect to spend a minimum of $2500.00 to get it..

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