[mythtv-users] Recommended GUI dimensions/setup to deal with overscan @ 1920x1080i

Dan Christian dac at x.cx
Mon Aug 29 15:39:36 UTC 2005


I was using component out, and it wasn't clear if this was included or not.

In fact, the component out signal works better with typical overscan, but not 
really enough.  DVI is, of course, sharper; but you see more with component.  
Can't win, really.

-Dan

On Sunday 28 August 2005 09:02 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Dan Christian wrote:
> >By the way, the overscan settings for my NVIDIA 6600GT card had no effect
> > at HDTV resolutions.
>
> NVIDIA's overscan settings only affect TV out (thus the name
> "TVOverScan") on cards with the NVIDIA or Conexant TV encoders.  Since
> HDTV resolutions cannot be output via the S-Video/Composite TV out port,
> overscan settings will not affect HDTV output (which is via the
> VGA/DVI/HDMI ports and not using the NVIDIA or Conexant TV encoder).


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list