Macbook Pro Off-Center on LCD TV

I am wanting to use my Macbook Pro hooked to a Samsung 32" LCD TV as a secondary display. When I attempt to set the Samsung resolution to 1360x768 in Mac's display preference, the image is off-center with a black band down the left side of the tv. I have used the dvi to vga supplied with my macbook, and have vga going into the set. When i set the resolution to 1024x768 the image is centered (but stretched).
Anyone else seen this? Any suggestions? I have searched the forum and the entire interweb, but cannot find anything.
Thanks!

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I've even seen them at Target...

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