1080i?

Text on my set looks about the same as it does on my monitor for my PC. the problem I find is that its usually too small to see from accross my living room.

One thing to investigate is that most TVs by default do what is called Overscanning. They blow the picture up so that the very edges are actually off the screen. This is because most HD content can have artifacts along the very edges. I found disabling this actually improved crispness in all pictures as well as text. Sorta like putting the pixels where they actually belong. you would not notice this when only using TV signals. But definately might help on the PC signal. My set allowed for this setting to be changed per input. So I only disabled it on the PC input.