Overscan on LCD HDTV: Need Help
 

So after experimenting with a lesser brand, I finally settled on the awesome Samsung 40" LCD with 1080p .


I have my PC (with newly installed graphics card that can go up to 1920x1080) hooked up to the TV with a DVI cable (and a newly acquired DVI/HDMI adaptor), as the quality wasn't very good with a VGA cable (ghost trails, or whatever you call them). The quality is great and it displays 1920x1080, but the desktop won't fit on the screen. I'm told this is a case of overscanning (taskbar isn't shown, top icons are missing).

So someone pointed me to a program called Powerstrip , which I got off a torrent. It basically helps fitting the image and dealing with the overscan problem.

The only thing is that this program is very precise, so I need some exact specifications in order to get the picture how I like it; basically it looks like I have to mess around with these two options , but playing around with the arrows will cause the screen to go blank, saying that there's "no signal". So, I could use your help in typing in the exact specifications to get all this working. Any ideas is appreciated.

I think this is what you need... ;)

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/10...ion/index.html

I read that before, and the solution it gave was to use Powerstrip on a seperate monitor, tweak the arrows until you think it will fit on the HDTV, then plug it to the HDTV.

The problem with this is that the control center reads my PC monitor and HDTV as two seperate monitors. Therefore, the changes I make to one monitor won't be transferred to the other. If there is a way to carry over the changes, please let me know.

I don't think you are reading the article right, and you are definitely not doing this correctly.

First off, what kind of video card are you using? Secondly, what are your video drivers and version number? Thirdly, do you plan on using this 40" as the main display for your computer, or do you plan on using your PC with the 40" some of the time, but leaving your computer hooked up to a regular monitor?

I'm using a Radeon 9600 XT edition. I'm using the latest driver. And I was thinking of merely going back and forth between the TV and PC monitor, but I'll probably use the former more, especially with games and movies.

On VGA mode, the 1920x1080 resolution would fit, but I had switched to HDMI/DVI due to the bad ghost trails (or whatever you call them). Do you think a DVI to VGA adaptor would fix things? The problem with HDMI/DVI is that the TV does not provide the PC features that it does with VGA mode.

I would imagine the ghost trails is from buying a hdtv with a high response time.

I don't understand how this can be that hard. The article I linked to doesn't mention PowerStrip or anything else. You need to plugin the to HDTV monitor using the DVI-HDMI adaptor, with no other screens attached. The system will boot up likely in 1024x768, at which point, you open Catalyst CC and turn on the 1080p timing in the advanced section, and then use the Catalyst controls for over-underscan adjustments.

I feel like a broken record though because that article says the same thing I just did, but more thorough and in-depth so you can't screw it up.