Hooking Mini to 1080p HDTV

Ok last night I got my mini and I hooked it to my TV via DVI...My TV does have a DVI input just for PC's.
Instantly the mini noticed and changed the resolution to 1920X1080.
The TV said it was in 1080p standard mode and it looked good.
Except for the overscan which had cut off the top and some of the bottom bars.
When I changed the resolution the 1600 x ? basically the next resolution in line it worked and I can see the screen just fine but I get a message on my TV that is has detected an invalid signal type even though it still continues to work. It says if you've connected an analog PC check your tv settings?
But I'm going digital. I don't get this when I'm going 1080p.
So what are my options at this point? I still need to check the overscan box and see if that does anything when I"m in 1080p mode. Won't that give me the best picture and be less strain on my eyes?
That's one thing I noticed...it was really straining my eyes to look at it for so me reason.
Would that switchresx be of any help?

it seems like 2 out of every 3 posts in these forums relates to people struggling to set up monitors to their computers. i think this represents a new area for apple to try to get on top of. it would really be nice to have hdmi output and simple
plug and play for monitors wouldn't it? you may all now proceed to bombard me with technical reasons why this cant be done, but seriously is this really so impossible to accomplish? even if you couldn't plug and play due to so many different monitors out there, i think it could easily be a more streamlined/simplified setup. cant we envision a wizard; what resolution do you want to output? (1080p, 720p, etc.) or does the screen look the way you want? (yes, cant see the top and bottom, cant see the sides, text to small, etc.).

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