RPU primarily for PC use...which is best?

Probably don't want 65HM167 and they do use overscan with PC. Not sure about the VGA port as it is limited to 1024x768 resolution (I used DVItoHDMI cable)

With Mits 65731, you can use Reduced mode with pic size button to see the whole desktop but it will have black bars all around the screen and with Normal mode, it is using overscan.

Yep you're right. My Tosh 65HM167 doesnt display start menu/taskbar on bottom. I just used crtl esc to bring start menu up =p I only use my PC as HTPC so that doesn't really bother me.

AFAIK, unfortunately no. Only HPOS and VPOS in service menu which won't even help.

All rp tv's have some amount of overscan.....nature of the beast. Unless you are willing to reengineer the light path (move the mirror or light engine) you cannot get away from it.

That said, I use a KDS60A2000 on my htpc setup with overscan correction (HAH! Good joke on Nvidia's part, but I digress....) applied. Too blurry for websurfing / email / etc (unless I let it overscan) but ok for gaming / dvd's.

If I were looking for a new set today and thinking gaming / really big monitor as the main use, I would seriously consider a direct view lcd. Generally easy to eliminate overscan without loosing sharpness, and the refresh rates on the new units are more than acceptable for me. The price......well, I would have spent a whole lot more to get 60" at 1080p.....

Like everything else in this "hobby", sometimes you have to make tradeoffs....

Ah, thats the thing.....television signals are designed with overscan in mind. The extra scan lines are used to carry data, things like commercial break timing and the such. If you could see them on the screen it looks like static at the top and bottom of the picture. Of course, this only applies with analogue signals.

TV signals are formated in such a way that the unused scan lines do not contain anything important...like stock tickers, scoreboard overlays, etc. This is all kept in the safe area of the screen, out of the potential overscan region.

Given a digital signal, this becomes moot. The data is no longer presented as a video scan line so there is no danger of it (the data bursts) showing on the screen. The producers / broadcasters could fill that whole signal but then you run into the problem of sets where overscan is a fact of life. You wouldn't want the ticker on CNN cut off on the bottom simply because some sets can display the whole signal. The folks who can't, and they are still the majority, would be looking for heads!

Since these things are designed to watch television / dvds (not desktops), I would guess the manufacturers are not overly concerned with overscan. At least direct view flat panel owners have the option (in most cases) to set up their tvs to "Show me all the dang pixels I paid for!".

Could be worse though....you could be dealing with a plasma that has a funky rectangular pixel layout (like 1024 x 1024 in a 16:9 screen) that gives you Stretch-o-Vision on a pc signal