so last week a friend was here, and we pulled the HDMI cord from my blu-ray and hooked it up to my laptop to download a couple shows from HULU. we did the "duplicate screen", and it was just fine. exact display as on my laptop showed up on my 60" tv.
fast forward to today...ordered a 25' HDMI so i can sit on my couch and run it to my TV. hook it up, and its 100% different. if i do "duplicate screen", on my TV, i get a image of the laptop display that is about 2/3 or so the size of the TV. if i do "projector only" (so my laptop screen is blank), i get a large display on my tv, but its about 10% too big, so it cuts off my start bar at the bottom, a bit of the top, and both sides, to where i can see my icons on the left column
so im trying to figure out why i cant just get a straight duplicate image...any ideas? i didnt do anything to change the resolution since he was out friday.