Display cut off, is there a screen wizard like in Android?

[SSThing]

Much to my disappointment, the screen image from my X7 on my Sony TV is oversized so I am getting cut off all around at recommended resolution settings. Changing the resolution only results in a desktop that is too small or wrong format. My old Android box had a wizard that allowed me to extend the desktop to fill my tv screen, is anything similar available for this machine?
Thanks

[LGSW]

As far as I'm aware, you van adjust this in the picture settings on your TV.

[noggin]

There is also, often, an Overscan slider in the graphics driver in Windows.

The issue is that your TV is simulating overscan - almost all TVs do by default on general HDMI inputs.

The best solution is to see if your TV has an option to disable it - usually called Just Scan or Full Pixel, or in some cases it is a Picture Size setting. On some TVs this is only available if you are running your PC at the same native resolution as your panel. And in some cases renaming the HDMI input as "PC" will also disable overscan. The reason this is best is that it avoids more scaling (and if you are running native resolution you get no scaling at all)

The other option is to see if your driver has Overscan settings. This means that the graphics driver scales the desktop down a bit (putting black around the edge) to counteract the scaling that the TV is doing. It is a solution if you can't disable overscan on the TV, but it means you have a double scale going on (In some drivers you can reduce the resolution by selecting a lower resolution mode which reduces the resolution and puts black around rather than scaling and putting black around which may be better)

[SSThing]

Unfortunately, my tv has no settings that I can adjust relating to the hdmi input. I have tried looking all through the settings on the box but have still had no success which means the box is unusable in full screen as most of the icons are cut off, this is most frustrating.

[buzzbuzz68]

Refreshrate?

Hi. Have you tried to change the refreshrate in Windows? Perhaps it's on a rate your TV doesn't like?

[SSThing]

I have tried different resolutions and different refresh rates, nothing cures it.

[noggin]

Odd. What model Sony TV do you have, and what is its panel resolution?

I've had Sony TVs since 2006 (all Full HD) and they've all had an option to inhibit simulated overscan somewhere - but it's been called different things in each case. I'll see if I can download the manual and advise.

If it's a 1366x768 model things may be a bit trickier - as you may only be able to run that natively at 60Hz (some 1366x768 TVs will accept 720p and 1080i/p at 50/60Hz but don't let you disable overscan simulation on these resolutions, but when you feed them 1366x768 you get no overscan, but also no 50Hz option. Been caught by this on a non-Sony display in the past) but haven't ever owned a non-Full HD Sony.

[SSThing]

Sony KDL 40v2000.
According to the specs its native resolution is 1366x768 but the X7 keeps telling me its supposed to be 1920x1024. Either way, it don't work, the native settings result in a desktop about half the size of the actual screen.

[noggin]

Looking online and at the manual for your set, you may need to go into the 'Screen Menu' (below picture and sound) and ensure that 'Viewing Area' is set to 'Normal' and not -1 or -2 which will increase the overscan. However it may not be possible to disable it entirely because of the panel resolution and it being an early European HD set.

(The PC settings are for the VGA analogue sub-mini input I think - so not relevant to HDMI)

The HDMI inputs on early HDTVs (I think this dates back to 2006?) often only accepted 1080i, 720p, 576p and 480p (with some also accepting 480i and 576i throuh pixel doubling) so 1366x768 may not be an option via HDMI.

Given that your TV panel is 1366x768 I'd select 1280x720 (aka 720p) rather than 1920x1080 (aka 1080i/p) and either 50 or 60Hz depending on your dominant content frame rate (I'm in the UK and mainly watch European content so chose 50Hz).

You may find in the Intel Graphics settings that you are able to force a screen mode by selecting an option which says something to the effect of 'show resolutions unsupported by this monitor' but if you select this, I'd make sure you can remotely connect in via VNC or similar to make sure you can undo any changes.

I don't have a Z-series device yet - am waiting for mine to arrive to play with. You may also find that installing the latest Intel drivers offers you more options?

[SSThing]

Still no joy.
Surely, if I set the resolution to 1366x768 I should get full frame? (but I don't).

[WeK05]

Still no joy.
Surely, if I set the resolution to 1366x768 I should get full frame? (but I don't).

Have you tried setting custom resolution of 1366x768 in Intel Graphics? Click on the drop down arrow near Display on the left side of the Intel Graphics control panel.

[WeK05]

I don't have a Z-series device yet - am waiting for mine to arrive to play with. You may also find that installing the latest Intel drivers offers you more options?

Huh.. What device were you testing in the dropped frame thread?

[sogoku_vn]

Like me, but I solved by change resolution 1366x768 and change zoom function on my Panasonic TV

[noggin]

Huh.. What device were you testing in the dropped frame thread?

Check the dates of the posts... My X7 arrived on Tuesday, after my posts in this thread.

[WeK05]

Check the dates of the posts... My X7 arrived on Tuesday, after my posts in this thread.

Sorry! I hadn't paid attention to the date. I hadn't seen this thread before and mistook it to be a new one. That is why your post confused me.