INF monitor file for SONY Bravia HDTV (W510 DP-HDMI) for Windows 7.

Hello everybody,
Does anybody has a INF monitor file (or driver) for SONY's Bravia television sets? Mine is KDL40-XBR2 and by default is using the "Generic PnP Monitor" driver which is pretty lousy... the text is pretty bad and the quality is worse than using the VGA port of the laptop.
I need something specific for SONY but they don's support their line of TVs... I wasn't able to find anything on the net.
Thanks.

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