Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="mbuzina" data-source="post: 215374" data-attributes="member: 12382">The plain old setop box is allways connected to a TV by the same means.PCs are connected in a miriad different ways to different devices (PC monitors have no overscan). Windows is not designed specifically to work on a TV, so it basically ignores overscan and uses the reolution you've got (start menu!). The problem is not that PCs do strang things, it is the TVs that do that. Your RearPro is set to No Overscan on 1024 x 768, but to do overscan in 1080i (it overscans also for you setop box, but it only uses part of the total resolution for it's UI). In MediaPortal you can use the UI calibration and if you place the corners correctly, your UI should be visible.Your sentence &quot;Also because my HDTV is running over DVI it should be fixed pixel.. so no overscan?&quot; SHOULD be true, but go ahead and tell that to the TV manufacturers. This depends fully on your TV.Don't blame your $2000 PC on this, it is a multi-purpose device, no initially designed to be used on TVs, which have no real specification on what they do with the signal they receive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mbuzina, post: 215374, member: 12382"] The plain old setop box is allways connected to a TV by the same means. PCs are connected in a miriad different ways to different devices (PC monitors have no overscan). Windows is not designed specifically to work on a TV, so it basically ignores overscan and uses the reolution you've got (start menu!). The problem is not that PCs do strang things, it is the TVs that do that. Your RearPro is set to No Overscan on 1024 x 768, but to do overscan in 1080i (it overscans also for you setop box, but it only uses part of the total resolution for it's UI). In MediaPortal you can use the UI calibration and if you place the [I]corners [/I]correctly, your UI should be visible. Your sentence "Also because my HDTV is running over DVI it should be fixed pixel.. so no overscan?" [B]SHOULD[/B] be true, but go ahead and tell that to the TV manufacturers. This depends fully on your TV. Don't blame your $2000 PC on this, it is a multi-purpose device, no initially designed to be used on TVs, which have no real specification on what they do with the signal they receive. [/QUOTE]

Verification