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Macbook PRO + Samsung 32inch FullHD and 1080p resolution.
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panzer06
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Sometimes you have to tell it to list all resolutions and select the one you want, for whatever reason it doesn't pick it up on its own.
Cheers,
ok...
just to be clear:
I have a Samsung as well, I stumbled onto all the fixes, and my question is:
1920X1080 is the highest res I can get? I ask because, there are black bars on either side of the screen. It looks ALRIGHT, i guess, but, I'm not blown away or anything. I have a 40inch Samsung. I wanted to watch Planet Earth on it in full screen, but, it mattes out the picture (using VLC) on top and bottom and on both the right and left side. Am I doing something wrong?
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Mattio
just to be clear:
I have a Samsung as well, I stumbled onto all the fixes, and my question is:
1920X1080 is the highest res I can get? I ask because, there are black bars on either side of the screen. It looks ALRIGHT, i guess, but, I'm not blown away or anything. I have a 40inch Samsung. I wanted to watch Planet Earth on it in full screen, but, it mattes out the picture (using VLC) on top and bottom and on both the right and left side. Am I doing something wrong?
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Mattio
Thank you all, I thank you, now my tv is in 1080 without the "i", which I believe is the 1080p resolution as the screen with this incredible quality. I had to enable the option show display in menu bar, then the default list of the 1080p option is not displayed. Thank you and hope that the next user of any doubt I can help with some information.
😀 😎 🙂
yep. as you discovered, for some unknown reason, the 1920x1080(60hz) option is only made available through the display settings in the menu bar. accessing the display settings through system preference doesn't give you the 60hz option.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6738114#post6738114
ViciousShadow21
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Hello. I have exactly the same HDTV and Macbook Pro5,1. My problem is when I run Windows Vista with Boot Camp, I put clone on my video card settings and I see the same picture on my monitor at 1440x900 and on my Samsung HDTV at 1080p, but I just can't get it work on Leopard. On Leopard if I put mirroring on my monitor I see 1440x900, but on my HDTV I see 1080i and there are black borders (about 1 inch) on the left and right side of the TV. The Samsung TV is set to "Just scan". I use mini-DVI to DVI to HDMI. The annoying is that on Vista the picture perfectly fits the TV and on Leopard not 🙁
Hello. I have exactly the same HDTV and Macbook Pro5,1. My problem is when I run Windows Vista with Boot Camp, I put clone on my video card settings and I see the same picture on my monitor at 1440x900 and on my Samsung HDTV at 1080p, but I just can't get it work on Leopard. On Leopard if I put mirroring on my monitor I see 1440x900, but on my HDTV I see 1080i and there are black borders (about 1 inch) on the left and right side of the TV. The Samsung TV is set to "Just scan". I use mini-DVI to DVI to HDMI. The annoying is that on Vista the picture perfectly fits the TV and on Leopard not 🙁
panzer06
Contributor
Don't mirror the displays and select the correct resolution for the TV (1920x1080).
Cheers,
an update for this, as mentioned earlier there was a workaround to get full 1080p resolution. That no longer seems to be the case. I did a clean install, installed all osx updates (10.5.7) plugged my samsung tv and it automatically detected the tv and displayed the full 1080p without doing the "trick" in display settings.
Not sure when they fixed this issue but the fact apple fixed it is good news!
Not sure when they fixed this issue but the fact apple fixed it is good news!