HDMI to DVI Stretching past the borders of the screen

[FuryofFive]

I just recently hooked up my Desktop to my pc(rig in sig)

to a 46" sanyo 1080p tv at the resolution of 1920x1080, ive also had this happen on a 46" samsung 1080p tv.
same thing happens with my laptop, which has HDMI out, so then its hdmi to hdmi.

I use the hdmi port labeled DVI, as well as the other's

unfortunately it doesnt scale to the screen, it goes past the borders.

i then have to manually adjust it to something like 1780x992


which is not a huge problem, just wanted to get some possible suggestions i could try.

 

[TuxDave]

Yeah, turns out by default a 1080p video going to a 1080p screen doesn't do a 1:1 mapping of pixels. It always goes beyond the screen and I'm not really sure why. You need to change the scaling on your monitor/tv (the thing in the menu that says widescreen/zoom/whatever) to whatever resembles "exact or 1:1 or not-scaled" and you'll get your 1:1 mapping.

 

[Soundmanred]

manually adjust it to 1780x992.

 

[Crusty]

It's called overscan, and it's a leftover from the CRT days sadly. Some(most?) TV's let you disable it and get back to a 1:1, BUT you're going to see bars/dots/lines on the edges of your pictures for certain channels.

 

[TuxDave]

It's called overscan, and it's a leftover from the CRT days sadly. Some(most?) TV's let you disable it and get back to a 1:1, BUT you're going to see bars/dots/lines on the edges of your pictures for certain channels.

Yeah, I know when I do that and enable image smoothing, I always end up with a green line along the top of the picture. So I leave overscan for TV but disable it for when I use a computer.

 

[Modelworks]

I have a 720P hitachi LCD where they list the resoultion as 1366x768 and there is no way to change it. It was designed that way . They used a high end panel designed for media displays in places like casinos that have light issues and need to be readable under all conditions. Those displays were often connected to a pc to display custom content in the casinos. The viewing angle on it is great and never washes out no matter how bright the room. So the TV I bought for the living room is actually a pc monitor with a ATSC tuner built in and sold as a high end hitachi

I found out about it being released from a friend at UL labs when they were doing testing. He told me about how they were amazed to find it was a pc monitor. Apparently hitachi had an excess of the display panels and rather than try to sell them as pc monitors and develop that , they decided to sell it as a prosumer display.

 

[FuryofFive]

i picked up a 42" dynex and it scaled perfectly