[mythtv-users] HDMI vs DVI->HDMI

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 00:10:01 UTC 2009


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> I had no problem driving my samsung via hdmi (from dvi) with zero
> overscan.   Overscan is an artifact of the NTSC round tube world,
> I think.   All the HD programs I see fill the non-overscanned screen
> just fine, though on rare exceptions I will see a thin line on the side
> of an image.     Most of my NTSC analog recordings are this way too.
>
> The only exception, oddly, is some of the SDTV programs that the
> HD stations have upsampled to HD, where they include the vertical
> interval at the top of the image, so you see a line of blinking
> dots.   I just ignore it these days.


You need some overscan somewhere to get rid of the scan lines at the top.
 My projector has it but so does myth.  I set myth to 3% and the projector
to no overscan.  I was under the impression that most new TVs have an
adjustment for overscan somewhere in the menu.

Allen
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