How do I get rid of the black edges going around my TV with mac mini?

I'm using my moms account right now. Well anyway, my dad decided the other day that we should connect this mac mini we have to the tv to use as a media center for movies and music. I got it all hooked up in no time flat, but I'm having this problem with the video it is outputting. It's making this big black line around the edge of the screen, as if the image isn't big enough to cover the entire screen. This is really annoying when watching movies. I checked the apple solutions, and found the dumbest solution saying "Turn on over scan and then manually adjust the settings on your tv", which would completally screw up the image for anything else besides the mac mini plugged into the tv. Is there a way I can fix this? I got this program called "DisplayConfigX" to fix it, but I need to enter very specific information about my TV such as the horizontal frequency and aspect ratio, which of course the TV manual does not have in it. Can somebody help me out here? I'm sure many people have done this with their mac minies already. If it helps, my tv is a Sony Trinitron, model KV-36XBR250. It's difficult to find any detailed information on the TV on the net considering it was purchased in 1999. Thx!

If you have an older, PowerPC Mac mini and not the newer Intel one, I recommend you download and install ATI Displays 4.5.7 which can be found at the below link:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folder ID=299
You will then find an extra panel in System Preferences... which will offer a lot more control over the video output to the Sony TV compared with the meager controls you get as standard from Mac OS X. Good luck.

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