[mythtv-users] how to set up xorg.conf for overscan

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Sun Oct 28 22:07:24 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/28/2007 05:47 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> BTW, by now I accepted that I was duped by LG, and got over it (not that I
>> do not mention that they lied when the subject comes up...). I will me much
>> more careful when I buy my next digital TV. This episode still amazes me in
>> how little one can trust what vendors say, even when they do it in big
>> letters all over the shop, the device and the instruction manual.
> 
> If you wanted a computer monitor (i.e. something that displays all
> pixels with no overscan), you should have bought a computer monitor. 
> TV's, however, have overscan.  So, it sounds like you were duped by the
> guy who sold you the TV (or by your own assumptions), not by LG.

So you say that it is unreasonable to expect a 52" digital TV to show all
the image that it was given (digitally)? OK, so who sells 52" computer monitors :-)

BTW, it clips my DVD and set-top too (using component input), this is not just a
PC issue.

> Mike

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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)


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