Help eliminating overscan

[batorideikou]

I recently bought a Philips DVP642 and it works beautifully with everything, well most things, heh, but I'm having the same problem as reported by 2 or 3 other people on the forums, I'm trying to watch hardsubbed Anime and it's cropping the subtitles off. Now I know how to bump the picture in VD or whatever, but I was more looking to eliminate the source of the problem in my tv's settings. I have 25" Orion I got for xmas in 2001 from walmart, and I'm wondering how I'd get into the service menu or whatever to correct the vert. overscan. Does anyone have experience with these, and the "code" or whatever to get into this menu? Or does this tv have no menu altogether and just have like knobs inside and I have to open it up? I reaaaaaaaaaaaaally do not want to have to resize/letterbox my divx files, thus defeating the reason for buying the dvd player in the 1st place (eliminating having to reencode everything I come across). Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I have Googled 'Orion tv service menu' and like 'Orion remote hacks' and such and have come up with very little of a result so far, so I figured I'd try everyone's wisdom here since you all seem to really really know what you're doing =). Thanks for any help anyone can give.....

-Brad

[Capmaster]

You can probably reduce the overscan, but you ought to get your hands on a service manual for that model before you do anything.

Don't just open it up and start adjusting things ....you'll never get it restored again without a service call.

TV sets have a horiz. and vert. size adjustment, and a centering adjustment just like CRT monitors. It's just a question of knowing how to adjust it. On the older sets it was a trimmer pot adjustment, but with the extensive use of ASICs in newer sets, it's no doubt a firmware tweak through some control panel ...probably by inducing a "maintenance mode".

We have a 53" Sony that has a fair amount of overscan, but the 27" CRT Panasonic has almost none. I had captured some VHS movies and made DVDs, and they show a bit of tracking noise on the Panasonic right at the bottom, but not on the Sony. However, I was not able to find the adjustment for the Panny. But it wasn't that big a deal so I didn't pursue it.

It sounds like it would be worth it for you to research it further

[batorideikou]

That's more what I was asking already, I know I have to get into/induce the "maintenance mode" on the tv, but I was wondering if anyone had experience with Orions, as I have no idea how I would go about bringing up the maintenance mode/service mode/whatever it's called. And I used Google to try and finagle some answers, but all I kept coming up with were like tv repair sites in the uk with people having actual problems with their tvs or logs of service calls or selling universal remotes to access that sort of thing, but if I'm ordering a $50 remote from the uk, I might as well buy a tv stateside with more obvious ways of getting at its options :P[/b]

[Capmaster]

I was reacting to this:

Or does this tv have no menu altogether and just have like knobs inside and I have to open it up?

and I wanted to mainly warn you not to open it up without some guide. It sounded to me like you were getting ready to start fiddling with the picture controls and I was just trying to save you a lot of frustration later.

I personally have never heard of that brand and I don't have experience with them. If anyone has, I'm sure they'll chime in here.