[mythtv-users] Black Bars in Mythtv

[Jeff Simpson]

>  I also have a MythTV machine with a PVR-150 and a PVR-350. The PVR-350
>  output looks great on a regular analog NTSC TV, since that's what it's
>  designed for. It's output has a lot of overscan by default, which is
>  fine for displaying the TV signals it and the PVR-150 record, but is
>  annoying when the mythfrontend menus aren't completely visible, which
>  requires configuring mythfrontend to make its window smaller than
>  fullscreen.

Yeah, it is a little annoying to have to do that. Luckily the newest
SVN has a feature that lets you adjust the size of the frontend GUI on
screen live. You just arrow key around and it adjusts the top left and
bottom right corners for you to match.

What I would like to see, however, is more unused space in the GUI.
LCDs are perfectly square, and I'm sure a lot of new TVs are, too. My
TV, and I'm sure a lot of others, have some rounded corners and hard
to read spots along the edges. My choices are:
A). Adjust the MythFrontend GUI to go right to the edge, and I won't
be able to see the "next" button in the setup or the title of the
current screen
B). Adjust the GUI to be smaller than the screen. And whatever the
background is comes shining through on the edges and looks ugly.

If the outer 100 or 200 pixels of the GUI were unused for anything but
background, I'd have them run off the edge of the screen and have no
problem at all. Of course, that doesn't leave much space in the middle
for options, so you'd end up with a nightmare of organization trying
to make everything fit.