PC, HDMI, TV and rude words

I've been spending a good few hours trying to get a PC to look good on a HDMI TV. I would have thought digital interface, plug in and it'll look fantastic... all I seem to get is displays the overscan outside the TVs (and look blurry) or just blurry screens (where I can't find a mode to get a 1 to 1 display)

The video card is a Nvidia Geforce 9500GS and the TV is a Samsung LE26R41BD (1360x768 native display)

From using the interweb, it seems that it's a common problem of using HDMI as a display, with certain TVs needing to use powerstrip to get a 1x1 display via HDMI... Anyone had any luck, would a DVI to HDMI connector using the DVI port on the card be better?

VGA on the other hand works wonderfully well as soon as I plug it in... OH:

 

Does your TV have a 'Game Mode'?

What sort of TV is it?

EDIT: never mind I see you said it was a Samsung, if it's high enough spec it should have a game mode, that's supposed remove all the processing effects the TV adds. These are off by default on the VGA port of my Samsung, I assume yours too

 

Try flicking through the samsung settings and look for something called Justscan. Its to stop overscan or something and allows your tv to get 1:1 from the hdmi port.

 

Could just use VGA? Less input lag too.

 

Sounds like a driver issue to me

 

My new graphics card has a HDMI 1080 port too but I don't have HDMI on my TV, just D4 Terminals 1080i With the right cables it does look fantastic but like you the image is overscanned a bit loosing the top and bottom of the image. Apart from that it seems ok.

 

Found a fix yet?

 

Yes, use VGA... HDMI on PCs seems to be not very well thought out as a lot of TVs overscan badly, which is odd as the PS3 works well with my TV and a LG HD monitor with a HDMI port

 

Did you try looking for the just scan feature? Also i just remembered use hdmi 2 socket not hdmi 1 on the tv apparently samsung regard that as the PC socket.

 

Doesn't have anything for picture apart from 4:3 and widescreen mode (plus a useless zoom mode) and it only has 1 HDMI port...

 

Do you have the resolution on the PC set to the native resolution of the TV?

 

Yep, it goes down to 30hz and overscans outside the borders of the screen...

 

Jamtex... I'm sending you a pm.... of another forum that might be able to help you with your issue.

Xeveniah Darkwind

 

I still say you stick with VGA, you won't be missing out on much and it's far less hassle.

 

I have a sharp aquas i use with my current laptop, and I had an over scan issue before. However I just used my tv's fine tune option which lets you adjust the screen so it doesn't over scan.

It's called fine tune on mine. See if your tv has that. To be honest tv's that are even hd still display at a slightly lower resolution then most monitors will as far as sharpness goes. Hell on mine I still have the issue of ghosting when using my vga port for laptop, though dreamcast seem to work fine.

 

Ghosting on a VGA port is caused by a poor quality cable.

Get one of the thick, heavily shielded cables and the problem will go away.

 

I thought that HDMI was basically DVI with digital audio built in. I don't know why it would have trouble with overscan becasue you'd be sending a direct digital signal to the TV.

Then again, my knowledge of all this is a bit lacking. But I know I can use a monitor with HDCP support to hook to my cable box using a HDMI/DVI adapter.