resolution problem 1920x1080 HDTV

ShiversDan · 28 Jul 2010 at 22:59

Hi,

I am using my Samsung 40" HDTV as a PC monitor through a dvi to hdmi cable and am unfortunately having a problem with it. Whenever i select its native resolution of 1920x1080 the picture will be too big for the screen? so normally I have to scale it down in NVIDIA control panel to the custom resolution of 1804x1004. However I recently bought Starcraft 2 which does not have custom resolutions supported so i am forced to run i in 1920x1080 with the next best being 1680x1050 which I really don't want to use. Can anybody tell me how I can get the HDTV to run 1920x1080 but still have the picture perfectly fit the screen???? Thanks in advance.

WingZero30 · 28 Jul 2010 at 23:47

I think there should be a button on your remote which changes the display size on the tv. Try that and see if it works.

wapcatlet · 29 Jul 2010 at 00:26

I sometimes use my Samsung 40" led tv as a monitor. I link it via an hdmi to hdmi cable at its native resolution of 1920x1080 and it works perfectly.

As WingZero30 suggested, it might be worth checking your picture settings. Make sure that the "picture size" option is set to "Screen Fit" and not "Zoom", "Wide Zoom" or one of the other settings.

kylew · 29 Jul 2010 at 02:20

There should be overscan/underscan settings in the nVidia control panel, that should make it so you can run at 1080p with it properly scaled to the screen's size.

mattbill · 29 Jul 2010 at 10:39

On a friends Samsung LCD there is an option called 'just fit' and that will make the image fill the screen properly... he runs a media PC through it and he needed to adjust the image on the TV not the PC.

ShiversDan · 29 Jul 2010 at 13:11

I enabled something called Just Scan on my HDTV...is this overscan? it was 16:9 before but that didn't fit the screen? What does just scan do exactly? it doesn't stretch the image does it?

I jsut read a description that says "Just scan means the picture has no overscan or underscan, so what you're seeing is "edge to edge" picture without processing upscaling or downscaling." Can anyone enlighten me to what this does as im still clueless? lol thanks.