Problems with TV-Out resolution

[darkeneddays]

Just got a cheapo Ati Radeon VE to use for TV-Out.Had a spare PC so it is going to be used solely for playing DVDs/Divx movies.The problem is that the lowest resolution I can go is 800x600 on XP which creates a black border on the bottom of the TV.When I used a Nvidia TV-Out before on the same TV,I used TV-Tool with 640x480 resolution and "fit to desktop" option enabled.The TV-out fit fine then.Is there anyway to get the same results on this card?
TIA

 

[Peter]

Latest Radeon display drivers let you adjust the image size and position, even for the TV-out. Do that.

 

[darkeneddays]

Hmmm,I think I already tried that.The lowest the res will go is 800x600 so I tried to fit it to the screen with the 4 way directional arrows & the vertical/horizontal stretch and skew,but no matter how I try to adjust it,it won't go below this black bar on the bottom(About 1/2 inch,but it still annoys me).
I don't have the latest cat. drivers,but I believe the same option you are refering to is in the 2.? drivers I got.
Nevertheless,I might give the new cat. drivers a try anyways....

Any other thoughts?

 

[videobruce]

Why do you want a lower resolution? What size is the TV?

 

[Tal]

Try this program. It is AWESOME. Let's you use a hot key to turn on or off output to TV and let's you set 3 modes for 640x480, 3 modes for 800x600 and 3 modes for some other resolution. TVTool I've used it for Playing EVO 4x4 (Original version) on my buddies TV and it worked great! -TAL

 

[Boogak]

To select 640x480 as your resolution in XP, go to Display Properties -> Advanced -> Adapter -> Display All Modes. Kinda stupid how MS decided to hide that resolution.

 

[darkeneddays]

1)I want to lower the resolution so the video output will fill the TV screen
2)Tvtool only works with Nvidia based cards,right?
3)I found the display all modes button,but when I press it a TON of options come up as to what to choose.Unfortunately I can't read them on the TV.I'll try to increase the font size later and try again.

Thanks for the help