<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Eric Sharkey <<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org">eric@lisaneric.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:45 PM, John Welch <<a href="mailto:jrw3319@gmail.com">jrw3319@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> My question is<br>
>> do I get another LCD TV, or are the LCD monitors that are out there now as<br>
>> good or better for what I need?<br>
><br>
> I have three LCD TVs now. (24", 37", and 52".) Only the 52" has the<br>
> ability to turn off overscan when using a digital input (HDMI). Both<br>
> of my smaller sets insist on overscanning the image which absolutely<br>
> sucks for anything that isn't video (and only mostly sucks for video).<br>
> Luckily both these sets have VGA input and don't force an overscan on<br>
> VGA.<br>
><br>
> Anything marketed as a monitor will not overscan the input. With TVs<br>
> it's a bit of a crap shoot. It's just something else to keep in mind.<br>
<br>
</div>I made them get the manual out of the box for my LG tv to make sure<br>
you could turn off overscan, which meant they had to put a cd in a<br>
computer in the shop and open a pdf file (whats with the lack of trees<br>
in the box these days?)<br>
<br>
I also, to confirm my findings, googled from my android and found<br>
there were mostly good reports in the interweb about LG having the<br>
ability to turn off overscan.<br>
<br>
Saved going miles home to research on the net and then coming back to buy.<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing up overscan. It's probably something I should look at when considering my options. This is kind of related to how my problem started in the first place. I have always used the VGA connection on the TV for my front-end because when I first set it up (a few years ago) I couldn't get it working on the HDMI port and the Samsung manual specifically stated it did not support computer connections on anything other than the VGA port (one of the reasons I am boycotting Samsung). I decided to give it a try again recently. It did work, but I ran up against the overscan issue. It's in the process of testing and swapping connections when the HDMI port became loose.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div>