Correct Res For Connecting PC TO TV

[John_Jordan]

I have my tv connected to my pc through composite cable. When I view 16:9 material, and watch in 16:9 mode on my tv it cuts off some of the side of the action (also the case with 4:3 material). Now, how do i change this? I use media player classic, and its often annoying!


Ok, had a look at the settings and this is the section I think I need to change? Am I right?



Or do I need to change this:



LOL OR CHANGE BOTH? Hopefully, I dont have to change the resolution everytime I want to watch a video on my tv



thanks!!

[junkmalle]

The problem isn't resolution, it's overscan. Change the overscan settings.

[John_Jordan]

The problem isn't resolution, it's overscan. Change the overscan settings.

Please could you explain it a little more, on which settings? I am a total newbie

thanks!

[mats.hogberg]

Search this site for "overscan", or check the glossary. It's been explained umpteen cubed times.

/mats

[junkmalle]

I don't know where the overscan control is on the Nvidia control panel. Try under Overlay Controls or Fullscreen Video.

[John_Jordan]

ok maybe I didnt explain it clearly, the problem is with the tv! The video is fine on media player, but i have made a line on the screen where to the sides (the picture is cut off on the tv)

[junkmalle]

Yes, televisions always overscan the image -- they draw the picture larger than the actual visual portion of the tube. Everything you have ever seen on a standard definition TV has been missing the edges of the picture. You just never noticed it because you had no external reference.

The Nvidia controls have a setting somewhere that allows you to pad the edges of the TV output with black borders. That way the black borders are hidden by the bezel, not the picture.

[edDV]

With NVidea, in dual monitor mode, just select "Full Screen" in the video monitor playback window and it will scale to the boundaries of video raster output. Make sure you keep refresh rate to 60Hz (for NTSC) or 50Hz (for PAL).

Full Screen will extend to the edges of the video, so you may still loose ~5% each size due to overscan. I don't find this a problem.

[John_Jordan]

With NVidea, in dual monitor mode, just select "Full Screen" in the video monitor playback window and it will scale to the boundaries of video raster output. Make sure you keep refresh rate to 60Hz (for NTSC) or 50Hz (for PAL).

Full Screen will extend to the edges of the video, so you may still loose ~5% each size due to overscan. I don't find this a problem.

thank! I have a 100hz tv though, do i still keep it at 50?

[edDV]

With NVidea, in dual monitor mode, just select "Full Screen" in the video monitor playback window and it will scale to the boundaries of video raster output. Make sure you keep refresh rate to 60Hz (for NTSC) or 50Hz (for PAL).

Full Screen will extend to the edges of the video, so you may still loose ~5% each size due to overscan. I don't find this a problem.

thank! I have a 100hz tv though, do i still keep it at 50?

Never heard of a 100Hz TV
Are you hooked up S-Video?
Are you talking about a LCD?

[John_Jordan]

With NVidea, in dual monitor mode, just select "Full Screen" in the video monitor playback window and it will scale to the boundaries of video raster output. Make sure you keep refresh rate to 60Hz (for NTSC) or 50Hz (for PAL).

Full Screen will extend to the edges of the video, so you may still loose ~5% each size due to overscan. I don't find this a problem.

thank! I have a 100hz tv though, do i still keep it at 50?

Never heard of a 100Hz TV
Are you talking about a LCD?

Nope, its just a normal tv but 100hz one. Quite common in england I think. Cant remember the model name, but this is the newer model:
http://www.cinenow.com/us/materiel.php3/tid,9/id,137/

only composite, no s-video on my pc

[edDV]

With NVidea, in dual monitor mode, just select "Full Screen" in the video monitor playback window and it will scale to the boundaries of video raster output. Make sure you keep refresh rate to 60Hz (for NTSC) or 50Hz (for PAL).

Full Screen will extend to the edges of the video, so you may still loose ~5% each size due to overscan. I don't find this a problem.

thank! I have a 100hz tv though, do i still keep it at 50?

Never heard of a 100Hz TV
Are you talking about a LCD?

Nope, its just a normal tv but 100hz one. Quite common in england I think. Cant remember the model name, but this is the newer model:
http://www.cinenow.com/us/materiel.php3/tid,9/id,137/

only composite, no s-video on my pc

PAL is normally 50 Hz. I would assume the TV is doubling the refresh to the screen but it may accept 100 Hz.

I'm not familiar with this technonolgy.

[Richard_G]

As the OP said, 100Hz refresh rate TVs are common in Europe and yes, they do simply double the refresh rate so they display each frame twice. The theory is that as the refresh rates of CRTs have got faster the flicker has started to become noticable. This is a way of getting rid of it.

As for the original question, unless you have some sort of setting in your video properties that will allow you to add a black border to what you are displaying, you'll have to live with it. My ATI card has an overscan tick box but that has the opposite effect to what you want and increases the size of the image so making more of it fall off the edges of the screen. As junkmalle has already said, everthing else you watch on your TV has the edges cut off, it's just you've never been able to see it as it was intended before.

Don't bother changing the refresh rate, if the picture is displayed it must be correct. It won't have any effect on the size of the image.