1080p fullscreen on an LG Plasma

I have my mac mini, via HDMI, connected to an LG HD TV. The native resolution of the TV is 1920×1080. The problem is that these settings don't fill the entire screen. If I enable overscan, then the desktop goes beyond the actual screen size so that I can't see either the status bar.
I would really like to display 1080p that goes to the edges of the screen.
Any suggestions???

What about making adjustments from the TV itself? There are often differnt ways video can be formatted on the screen like full screen, wide, stretched, normal, zoom, etc. Different set makers use different terms but there is often a setting on digital sets that display pixel-for-pixel what the input is, so I would check the TV's manual.

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