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Connecting MBP late 2009 13" to Sony 52" XBR TV

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anthonycr

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Sep 4, 2010
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Melbourne, Australia
Hi,

Recently I bought a mini display port to hdmi adapter to plug into my Sony XBR 52 in Full HD TV. It all works but I can't get my MacBook Pro screen to fill up the entire screen of the TV. Tried adjusting resolutions and all that and even played with some TV settings but it wont work.
Any advice?
 
anthonycr said:
Hi,

Recently I bought a mini display port to hdmi adapter to plug into my Sony XBR 52 in Full HD TV. It all works but I can't get my MacBook Pro screen to fill up the entire screen of the TV. Tried adjusting resolutions and all that and even played with some TV settings but it wont work.
Any advice?
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uncheck overscan
 
do you have mirroring on? make sure mirroring is off, when i start up mirroring it will not fill my 26" because they are in 2 different ratios, so go into display preferences and arrangement, you can unselect mirroring there and select what side you want your external display plus select what screen you want as your primary scree.
 
TopHatPlus said:
do you have mirroring on? make sure mirroring is off, when i start up mirroring it will not fill my 26" because they are in 2 different ratios, so go into display preferences and arrangement, you can unselect mirroring there and select what side you want your external display plus select what screen you want as your primary scree.
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will try this, wish apple had better support for connecting things
 
its not perfect but it looks like it will work, it may be because the computer and the tv are in 2 different aspect ratios, ie true wide screen is 16x9 and one may be slightly off, so it does not fill the whole screen, how far off was it before? also i would be curious to set your tv as the primary as i seen you have and try close your macbook pro, it will make your mbp act as a tower, which is a pretty awesome thing =D
 
TopHatPlus said:
its not perfect but it looks like it will work, it may be because the computer and the tv are in 2 different aspect ratios, ie true wide screen is 16x9 and one may be slightly off, so it does not fill the whole screen, how far off was it before? also i would be curious to set your tv as the primary as i seen you have and try close your macbook pro, it will make your mbp act as a tower, which is a pretty awesome thing =D
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I closed the lid of my MBP but it didn't do anything apart from make both screen go black. What is it meant to do?
 
See if the tv has any settings to adjust the screen position, also try changing the refresh rate and see if that helps.
 
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