Connecting to a 16:9 LCD TV

Hiya,
I'm having a 'mare trying to connect my macbook to a 16:9 LCD TV (LG 37LC46 - UK spec).
I have it connected through a mini-DVI-DVI-HDMI which works fine but the image does not fill the screen correctly.
Using mirroring, if I have the res set to 1920:1080, it either leaves a thick black border around the display image or using overscan it leaves a smaller black border to the sides of the screen and cuts off the top.
The only combination I can get it to display flush to all 4 sides of the tv screen are by setting it to 1024x768 - however this isn't 16:9 and the picture is skewed. The native res of the tv is 1366x768, which isn't available (although it is HD Ready and will take 1920x1080 - which gives the problem explained earlier).
I've tried using DisplayConfigX but can't get it to work.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Basil

I fixed this. I used a setting of 1280x768 (60Hz) + overscan for the TV and 1280x800 for the laptop which seemed to do the trick.
Previously I think I also managed to get it to work properly on 1024x768 as the detailed LG manual recommends (but I'm not certain)

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