I've just noticed today that images displayed on my Samsung DLP hang over the edges of the viewable area. Is this normal? I've created an image in paint that is 1920x1080. Contained in the image is a big red box with a white border around it. Well, when displayed on the screen, the white border doesn't even show up. The red box fills the screen leading me to believe the TV is displaying stuff outside of the screen. Seems silly. Anyone else notice this?

You have discovered overscan which has been used to clean up the edges on TV sets since day one (1930's). ;)

The Long Overscan Story (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=9034992#post9034992)

The folks who like the "overscan" off feature the most are HTPC users.

I would not want to be without 1:1 pixel mapping because of my HTPC.

One problem that you will still have is that there is still "physical overscan" that will cut off some of the Task Bar in Windows. There are two ways around this problem. You can double the size of the Task Bar. That's the easy work around.

Turn off overscan and adjust vertical and horizontal image location with these instructions.

Provided by scsiraid (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8345218&&#post8345218)

You can also use a program called PowerStrip to customize your desktop resolution. I haven't used PowerStrip myself but it's very popular with HTPC owners.

You can get PowerStrip 3.7 here. (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm)

That's funny. I've probably read "overscan" about 1000 times on this forum and never knew (or cared) what it was. Heh. Oh well. I gues I'll leave it on. I've had the TV for almost a year and hand't noticed until today. Thanks, man!

You're welcome. :)