HDMI overscan to HDTV issue on x120e
I get very annoying overscan when i hook my x120e up to my Samsung UN55C6500 via HDMI. It's fine via VGA, but not via HDMI. CCC has no setting (that I can find) to fix the issue.
XBMC has it's own overscan correction so it's fine but win7 is very frustrating.
any solutions?
Has there been a fix to this problem? I have had my x120e for nearly a year, but just tried to hook it up to my 1080p HDTV via HDMI for the first time. The overscan issue is horrible -- it's not off by just a pixel or two, but by a lot! I'm running the HDTV at 1920x1080 in extended monitor mode, not cloned mode, in Windows 7 64-bit, and I have the latest ATI drivers and CCC per the Lenovo x120e driver page.
Further, while the ATI documentation claims that it can be adjusted using the overscan slider, there is no such option anywhere in the actual software -- it's as if the help manual and the software are out of sync. I've tried everything I can find in CCC, but no luck. Meanwhile, the HDTV works just fine with my cable box, my Blu-ray player, and my other laptop via HDMI. So this is definitely an x120e/ATI issue, not a problem with my HDTV. I'll never buy another Lenovo with AMD/ATI graphics -- I've had compatibility problems with a couple of them now, but never with Intel graphics. For crying out loud, this is a digital display, not a CRT, so why should any adjustments be needed at all??
Help! Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks
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I know there isn't much I can do about it (it's kind of like dealing with GSM noise), but I was just wondering if anyone else has encountered this weird issue. It's also probably not iPhone-specific, but alas, I don't have another mobile phone to test this with.
At least I know when someone is calling me before the phone rings :PI'm guessing its a Westinghouse thing. First off I thought they only made washers and dryers.
Anyway, I've had my phone around numerous manufactures HD TVs and have never seen this happen before. I'm guess that Westinghouse TV has some serious shielding issues that makes it very sensitive to RF.
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How to adjust HDMI overscan without catalyst control center? 2011
I have an unsolvable problem due to the lack of standard between Apple and AMD.
The problem is that i have a black frame arround my TV screen when i connect my MacBook Pro 2011 (15" 2.2Ghz) to my TV.
This is called overscan.
Now here is why i can't solve this (and why it is so frustrating):
-AMD cards send underscanned signal through an HDMI output by default.
-Having no native control for overscanning on Windows 7, the only way to adjust this is through AMD/ATI Catalyst Control Center software.
-The AMD Catalyst Control Center software is incompatible with the MacBook Pro 2011 and won't install.
Now is there a workarround for this?
If not, who is responsible (who should i turn to)?
Is it Apple for using a non-standard driver for the AMD graphic card?
Or is it AMD for not providing me with a compatible version of Catalyst Control Center?
PS: Of course Microsoft is responsible for not providing native overscan control in Windows 7Hi C,
See if the TV has overscan settings or zoom.
http://hd.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/
In a perfect world broadcasters would mind their signal and ensure every pixel was worth watching, then TV manufacturers wouldn't feel the need for overscan -- or at least we hope. In the meantime we're just happy that most TVs have a way to turn it off. When an image is displayed properly, it's sometimes referred as 1:1 pixel mapping. This simply means that every pixel in the signal is displayed by a single pixel on the display. Of course each manufacture has its own name for this mode; like Samsung who sometimes calls it Screen Fit, and Pioneer called it Dot by Dot. No matter what it's called, it's rarely on by default -- even when watching 1080p24 from Blu-ray which never has garbage on the edges! -- so you'll have to find the button on the remote called something like format or P.size, depending on the brand. Your best bet is to read the manual -- shocker.
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