thasp Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I use an HDTV as a monitor right now, with a windows PC. It's 1080p. When the resolution is set to 1920x1080, stuff on the sides gets cut off. So what I do is use the nvidia control panel to shrink it until I get 1824x1020 where everything is visible, and only go back to 1080p to view 1080p video since the overscan is negligible compared to the quality loss from resizing video like that. Can I do this if I get a macbook pro? I use a DVI-D ---> HDMI cable right now to hook to the TV. I'd like to be able to use this as a screen since 1824x1020 @ 50" is a bit roomier for logic than 15" 14**x9**.. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 quicktime player does overscan in full picture mode, eyetv player too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 On my hack if I use my projector there is an TV option in OS X that have option for overscan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thasp Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 COol thanks. this is less for quicktime but morer for the whole OS so the dock doesn't disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
un4 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 either I get 10% "blank" borders w/o overscan or I lose about 10% with it enabled... I'm on a nvidia 8400m gs ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a new era Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 I use a VGA cable on my Samsung 4071F to get rid of this issue. On my old TV it handled 1 to 1 pixel mapping and was fine with DVI-->HDMI. I wish there was a program that fixed this. Maybe switchresX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 I once hooked up my Pentium D PC to a 50" LCD 1080i with VGA. It looked absolutely terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 you'd want to use DVI instead of VGA. DVI on an HD TV with DVI inputs looks really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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