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    Laptop to HDTV image cropping

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by zhulunation, Jul 25, 2011.

  1. zhulunation

    zhulunation Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello, I have a 15.6" laptop that runs 1920x1080 natively and also have an HDTV that also claims to run at 1080p, but when I put in my HDMI cable, I get a cropped image on my HDTV that has the corners cut out. In addition, the image is stretched and looks poor because of the cropping. I'm certain my drivers are fine and updated, and I haven't been able to find any settings that make a difference. Does anyone know why?

    Notebook: dv6t-6100 cto
    Graphics: ATI Radeon 6770m
    HDTV: Auria EQ2487L
     
    zhulunation, Jul 25, 2011
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Try look for a 1:1 pixel stretch mode in your TV's settings. Maybe a PC mode.

    Otherwise you can try adjust from within AMD/ATI Catalyst Control Center.
     
    namaiki, Jul 25, 2011
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  3. zhulunation

    zhulunation Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've played around with the features in both the Intel and ATI graphics controller settings and nothing I've tried has fixed the problem. It seems like a overscan problem but my version of CCC doesn't have correction settings as far as I know
     
    zhulunation, Jul 25, 2011
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    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Its almost definitely your overscan setting, just need to find it and if your drivers for some reason do not have it, change drivers.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jul 26, 2011
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    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    My own AMD Radeon HD 6970m does that too, its "shrinking" the image to compensate for HDTVs buildt in overscan features.
    That would be fine but my 37" LG has an option to display 1:1 pixel ratio and it does give a better picture displaying stuff in native resolution.

    There is a option in Catalyst where to can control the underscan / overscan ratio and by default this is set to 85%.
    Once disabled it will be 100% meaning the full image is being transfered.

    On my Ion nettop this is different, here the overscan / underscan is disabled by default.

    I would read the link here as it shows how to do it on the current Catalyst suite.
     
    DEagleson, Jul 26, 2011
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    njfhdjfhqw, Aug 16, 2011
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