What is wrong with this picture? Zoom? Overscan? Crop?

[Xenogear900]

I just reformatted my computer, but I dunno what happened, now movies on my TV out look weird. The aspect ratio seems a bit off and stuff is cut off the top and sides. What do I do?

I'm using Media Player Classic and a GeForce FX 5200

[guns1inger]

Are they the same film ? Lawrence is 2.40:1 (although on your TV is looses a huge amount to overscan). The second shot looks like a 1.85:1 movie should look.

[jagabo]

Turn on overscan compensation in your graphics card's setup applet.

[Xenogear900]

No, they are two different films. On the second one....its still zooming in a bit, as you can see from the size of the black bars on the top and bottom.

How do I turn on Overscan Compensation with GeForce?

Thanks

[filmboss80]

You don't like widescreen movies? If you want to fill up every pixel in your monitor, you will have to zoom in and crop off the sides. Either that or squeeze the image so that people are as thin as toothpicks. Otherwise, leave it. There is nothing wrong with the picture. That's the way it is supposed to look.

[Xenogear900]

Its not that I don't like widescreen movies, I know I can crop it. Its OVERSCAN I don't like, its cutting off portions without me telling it to do so. How do I prevent this?

[jagabo]

It's normal for televisions to overscan. If you want to see the edges of the picture need to have the graphics card shrink the image and add a black border around it so that the border is hidden by the overscan, not the edges of the picture. The setting for this will be somewhere in the Nvidia control panel.

[Xenogear900]

I'm not seeing it in the Nvidia control panel....any idea where it is?

[minidv2dvd]

you have to create your own underscan settings now with the latest nvidia drivers.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1029456

[edDV]

Zooming the picture will reduce quality but it probably won't be that noticeable on a SD CRT.