HDMI on G73JH-A1 resolution?

Ok so this laptops is awesome, I can definitely confirm it has an optical audio out which does do true surround sound, I did a quick check im not sure if it was dolby digital or DTS, but its there, I put in terminator 2 judgement day special edition to test it and it does send the proper channel of sound around the room.

My problem lies within the hdmi. I havent checked if the driver is full up to date or not yet just did a quick looksy and it works seemlessly with my television, the laptop even tells me the name of the tele. So now to my problem, when the tv is displaying 1080p and dot by dot which is without any stretching enhancements on the image, theres about an inch and a half border of black unused pixel. My question now is which product isnt playing nice, the TV or the Laptop? I can confirm my tv has a native resolution of 1920 by 1080, and its a lcd hdtv. The model number is LC-52D92U, if any of you have had this problem and fixed it so that the image filled the entire screen, please share. Or if you have any suggestions for when I get home those would be nice too .

 

did you try playing with the overscanning or underscanning panel in ATI CCC?

 

Ill do that when I get home, I was just messing with the resolution and refresh rate, on CCC, I just updated to 10.6 too last night.

 

Something else to check... although, I'd expect more of a top/bottom border if this was wrong, not side to side:

First on your laptop, make sure the TV is properly being detected as 1920x1080 (which I'm sure you did).

Then, check your settings on the TV for the particular HDMI port you are plugging in to. Make sure that it isn't doing any additional processing on the incoming signal. And in particular, make sure the aspect ratio is 1:1, or native.

I would think theoretically any time you plug something in, the TV would be smart enough to properly auto-detect what to do, but who knows if a previous device you plugged into that port (or the factory hard-set specs) are scaling it some way that is making it askew.

 

If it's "windowboxing" ie all 4 sides have black bars, it's probably just overscan settings in the ATI CCC. I had this as well.

If there are only black bars on the sides, then I would think it'd be the resolution.

It's kind of unclear from your OP which is the case, but both can be fixed in the CCC. Otherwise, Lauski's suggestions are definitely good too.

 

All 4 sides have black bars, im figuring its an overscan issue come to think of it.

To answer Lauski's questionish, Its at dot to dot (1:1) and thats when I get a ful windowboxing effect. I can post process through my tv to stretch it but im smarter then that . Before the laptop a ps3 was plugged into that spot which the ps3 was outputting 1080p on the full screen. Ill have to go home and just make a CCC setting for when the tv is plugged in. Hopefully it is just a overscan issue and can easily be fixed.