[mythtv-users] TV Overscan

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:16 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On 14/02/2014 7:51 a.m., Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> The panel is natively 1280x720, so there's no legitimate reason to
>> want to go higher than that.
>
> Why would the manual say 1280x1024 for VGA then?

Because most TVs and projectors can accept higher resolutions than
they display and can downscale the video to fit.

This TV can  display 1280x720 but accepts a signal of up to 1280x1024,
which is then either cropped or scaled depending on the settings.

Eric