[mythtv-users] HDMI vs DVI->HDMI

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Feb 25 16:56:07 UTC 2009


Eric Sharkey wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
>>  I doesn't for me. I get worse overscan on my 8300 based motherboard
>>  with HDMI output than I do with another board using component.
>>  Irritating as hell. I tried using some of the options in Myth to
>>  correct it, but never did get it working well. Some of the menu stuff
>>  is cut off, but the picture looks good and I rarely need the menus. It
>>  would be nice to fix it though.
>
>I had the same issue with the default settings on my TV, but there's
>an "unscaled" format option on the TV itself which allows the whole
>picture to be seen.  No changes were needed in the MythTV
>configuration.

Annoyingly, not all TVs offer this feature :-(

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