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post #1 of 7
1/8/07 at 11:47pm
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Ok, heres the deal. I need to get my tvs "overscan" fixed, I have no idea what that is, I am guess its the picture, probably shrinking it. Anywho....

Basically I have a Xbox 360 and on it the pictures to big, everything is cut off and everyone says its because your tv needs to have its overscan adjusted, thats how everryone seems to be fixing it.

So my question is if it gets this overscan fixed and assuming it means they will "shrink" the image down for the Xbox 360's screen wo't that mean my normal channels will have shrunken screens too?

Or will this be seperate because the Xbox 360 runs off the HDCVI output?
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post #2 of 7
1/8/07 at 11:52pm
Greetings

Depends on the TV ... and we don't know what kind you have.

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post #3 of 7
1/8/07 at 11:54pm
Greetings

Nothing really wrong with getting less overscan on TV channels. Seeing more of the image is always a good thing. More of the stock ticker ... sports ticker ... more of the image in general. Just don't go overboard and try to see it all ... as that is a bad ideal usually.

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post #4 of 7
1/9/07 at 12:47am
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Heres my tv:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-30PW91...969953-8905626

My tv channels, at least from what I can tell, fit just fine. Its when I use the HDCVI channel where the XBOX 360 it at that it cuts everything off.

BTW I did the thing where you access the service menu but unlike my other Philips tv this one didn't show the menu, it had the same strange numbers at the top but no menu. Any idea what that means? Maybe onle accessible by a pro?
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post #5 of 7
1/11/07 at 12:46pm
Hey Michael, quick question. On the topis of overscan, as u quoted "as that is a bad idea" is it bad or particularly harmful for the TV?

Thank you.
Carmine.
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Greetings

Nothing really wrong with getting less overscan on TV channels. Seeing more of the image is always a good thing. More of the stock ticker ... sports ticker ... more of the image in general. Just don't go overboard and try to see it all ... as that is a bad ideal usually.

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post #6 of 7
1/11/07 at 1:47pm
Greetings

It is not "harmful" to the TV per se ... unless you had a CRT set and you purposely underscanned it for a long time and burned in the image edges into the CRT.

The Bad idea part comes from Cable and Satellite providers since with zero % overscan, you quickly find out which stations / channels are not properly centered. Some channels will be shifted to one side or the other revealing black bars.

Some DVDs will reveal digital garbage on the edges when overscan is set too low.

These are some of the reasons why manufacturers purposely add overscan to the displayed signal.

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post #7 of 7
1/12/07 at 8:26am
Ahhh i gotcha Michael. Thanks so much for the reply pal.


Carmine.
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