External display MBP, asepct ratio and stuff

[toebs]

Hello i have a problem when i connect my MBP to my plasma, but first ill introduce the hardware:

MBP unibody 15.4"
mini displayport -> dvi -> hdmi converter(s)
Panasonic 42" PX700 plasma

When i connect the MBP to the plasma, i set resolution on plasma to 1280x720.
But some of the top, bottom, and edges are missing, like its a little zoomed.
Allso picture looks a little stretched vertically, so that cars are boxy, faces are long etc.


Any one know what to do?

[bigbossbmb]

this is called overscan... it's part of the TV, see if you can turn it off with one of the TV's picture settings.

[toebs]

Thanks i will see if i can.

However when using windows, its not a problem. But sofacontrol for mac rocs so much, i wont to use osx ;)

[Fazzl]

im interested in this as well.

[roidy]

Is the TV the Panasonic TH42PX70 sometimes called the TH42PX700 because if it is then the TV only has a panel resolution of 1024x768.

[vw412fan]

You might be able to achieve the right resolution settings on your Macbook by installing SwitchResX in order to come up with custom display settings.

At one point I had my Mac mini connected by DVI-HDMI to my Panasonic TH-50PX80U plasma (also 1024 x 768 iirc).

I played around with SwitchResX and posted my settings here: http://fleablog.com/intel-mac-mini-switchresx-and-panasonic-th-50px80u-plasma/ Someone else posted comments as well, with slightly different settings.

Perhaps trying SwitchResX (http://www.madrau.com/html/SRX/About.html) will help.