[mythtv-users] [OT] LCD TV or LCD Monitor for Front-end

Kenni Lund kenni at kelu.dk
Sat Feb 4 18:03:03 UTC 2012


2012/2/4 Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com>:
> Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote on Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 11:01:00AM +0100:
>> 2012/2/4 Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Jeff Artz <jeffa.myth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have a 32" Samsung LCD (Model LN32C350D1DXZA) in my bedroom.  It's a
>> >> '720p' set with a native resolution of 1366x768 (or 1360? I dunno...)
>> >>
>> >> Anyways, on one HDMI port, it will only accept HD resolutions, and
>> >> overscans them. [Blah]
>> >>
>> >> On the other HDMI port, it accepts the native resolution of 1366x768 and
>> >> does NOT overscan.  So I have my MythTV frontend connected to that HDMI port
>> >> and a resolution of 1366x768.
>> >>
>> >> There is no setting on my TV to override the Overscan 'feature'...
>> >>
>> > I recently purchased a 40" Samsung LCD TV and connect to it with one of its
>> > HDMI inputs.  There was overscan, but I was able to compensate for it with
>> > the nvidia-settings program.  Is this not an option for you?
>>
>> You shouldn't do anything to compensate for the so called "overscan".
>> Like Simon wrote, it's a very suboptimal solution. If you get
>> "overscan" it's most likely because your graphics card is using a
>> resolution unsupported by your TV. Configure a proper modeline for
>> Xorg, select the setting "Fit to screen" (or something near that) on
>> the TV and set the sharpness filter to 0 on the TV. That should give
>> you proper 1:1 pixelmapping. If you use some other approach by
>> scaling, cutting or whatever, you'll be lowering the quality of the
>> picture.
>
> Kenni, I think the point is that some TVs don't have the "Fit to
> Screen" option, otherwise known as "1:1", "Just Scan", etc.

Sure, but my reply was specific for Samsung as Kenneth had a 40"
Samsung TV according to his post.

Best regards
Kenni


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