Tiny Text on Sony Bravia 46' 1080p

I recently purchased a Mac Mini and hooked it up to my Sony Bravia 46' 1080p tv in the living room. I had no problem getting the computer up and running and syncing with the wireless mouse and keyboard. However, the text is so small on the screen that I have to squint to make it out. Also, the screen does not fill up the entire tv screen as there is room on both sides. I've been using the zoom trick with the Magic Mouse to get around it for now but would really like to not have to worry about it.

If you are too far away from the TV, text is going to be tiny.
For web browsing, you can fight some of this by using Firefox, which allows you to magnify the text and images on a site-by-site basis by simply pressing CMD-Plus or CMD-Minus to increase or decrease size. Firefox then remembers the magnification setting for each site!
BTW you don't have to hold down the Shift key to get CMD-Plus in Firefox. Their programmers were nice enough to allow CMD-Equals (unshifted Plus) to do the same thing.
Most web browsers also have a Preference setting for using a larger minimum font size -- though often this is somewhat hidden. I've yet to see a browser that lets you increase the text size in the address bar, however.

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Ok, based on your photo, it's a bit blurry, it looks like your TV comes with a VGA + Audio input AND HDMI + Audio input, so you get to choose which one you want to use.
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VGA + Audio (Red)
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mcfancher wrote:
Thanks for the reply. My dumbself forgot that right next to my new TV is my old TV, a 40" Samsung LCD. Now I put it on my desk and I have it in 1080p and everything is going good except for the fact that I can't see the top bar on my desktop and now the sound seems to be coming exclusively from my Mac instead of my TV, although I still have it hooked up with an HDMI cable. Any new thoughts?
EDIT: Ok fixed the display issue, but I'm still getting sound out of my Mac. Really confused on what to do. I don't see why I could get audio out of my Sony TV with an HDMI cable but not my Samsung. Doesn't the same principle apply? Xbox and PS3 work that way, so pretty confused unless I need to get a digital audio cable or something.
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According this: https://docs.sony.com/release/specs/KDL32BX300_mksp.pdf
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I wish the industry would be a little bit more progressive and in a sense I wouldn't be surprised to learn one day that Apple and cohorts have already considered a solution that not only avoids clutter around a TV (with yet another box and cables to cast audio/video) but that also avoids software mess and configuration effort on computing devices that provide the stream to the TV.
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I'm trying to sync my mac to Sony Bravia as well.
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I know the names in portuguese.
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