I'd like to do this but I'm not sure how I can, my LCD display is a tv and only runs at certain resolutions, native 1366x768. I don't know how I can force it to overscan in X11. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/24/06 22:54, Carl Lewis wrote:<br><br>>David McKenzie wrote:<br>><br>><br>>>The problem is that recordings and live TV using the PVR-150 doesn't<br>>>fill the screen completely<br>>><br>...
<br><br>>>Has anyone seen this before or can offer a resolution? Right now it is<br>>>the only thing from letting me switch over to Myth completely.<br>>><br>>><br>>David, I've been seeing the same thing in Australia, with ABC in
<br>>particular. I run a 100" screen (projector :-) with no<br>>overscan. The affected channels/programs have about a 2" vertical<br>>stripe/black-bar down one or both sides.<br>>I've only noticed it since setting up a border around the screen :-/
<br>>so I've no idea when it started.<br>>Same as you I've looked at the recordings themselves and they contain<br>>the vertical space.<br>><br><br>Because the recording device was designed for use with a system that
<br>/requires/ overscan. I.e. NTSC and PAL were designed such that display<br>devices would overscan the image to cut off black/green/rainbow bars,<br>static, jagged edges, and any other "ugly" attributes of the image
<br>allowing the user to see only pretty and without requiring significantly<br>advanced technology (remember also we're talking about technologies that<br>are over 50 and almost 40 years old, respectively).<br><br>That means, it's not a driver issues, but an encoding system issue (and
<br>we're talking the encoding that comes before the PVR does its<br>encoding--garbage in/garbage out and all). So, if you don't want the<br>edges, overscan the image to get rid of them--make your display device<br>work as the designers of NTSC/PAL intended.
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