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Originally posted by LCH
OK - Re-checking the 'well-written" manual, I see that there is a "DTV" row in the PC "Display Modes" chart. It's at the bottom of the chart, which ascends in resolution from the top down.
What IS DTV ? Did they mean DVI ? Yes - they might mean "Digital TV". 
Regardless - in the "DTV" section, there are three resolutions listed, one of which is 1280 x 720p @60 Hz vertical frequency. Does this give you guys both full screen DVD display AND full screen desktops ? |
It doesn't make any difference and that doesn't change the fact that the TV is overscanning the edges off the screen which IS the problem. You can tweak the refresh rates using powerstrip and its fine for quite a range before the image finally vanishes (not supported).
Check out this disturbingly similar thread not a single page away from this one:
here
My last post there read:
The 507's/437's have overscanned 1:1 pixel screens - meaning that when you send it a signal which occupies ALL of the pixels you won't see the "edges" as they are displayed off your actual visible screen.
Thats a real pain, but there was a thread (Franks I think on connecting his STB to the samsung) discussing this problem and someone talked about why thats necessary given the way todays TV signals are recorded and sent. In a purely digital environment it wouldn't be necessary but because the same signals need to be shown on analog sets the signals get a "safe" area around to cope with differing overscans on different sets.
In any event, when you switch to PC wide the set is actually downsampling the screen, effectively remapping all your 1280x720 pixels to something smaller - which is why text looks crappy in that mode and you should stick to TV wide (albeit with a few lost edges, 1/2 a task bar etc).
In a perfect world you would be able to adjust the amount of overscan on the HLMs but I'm not sure we've discovered how to do that (or if its possible).
Jonathan
Edit: oh yeah, it will be the SAME for ALL inputs because its an overscan issue.