visual resizing and positioning of displays

Markus Strobl mstrobl2 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 12 13:39:21 PST 2010





> Sounds like you have an unlucky display.  Even without an EDID, your
> TV will likely work with the standard HTDV timing modelines (it should
> for devices like cable boxes and DVD/BD players).  Also note that some
> tv's automatically overscan HDMI for some reason, you may have to
> adjust the TV itself to remove that.
> 
> Alex

I have seen this on most LCD TV's. Samsung has two settings in their picture size menu, the regular "16x9" setting will overscan, but the other setting called "just scan" will NOT overscan. I'm using "just scan" with my satellite box that output 720p over HDMI.

/Markus





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