Desktop overlaps the screen - SOLVED for Element 31" TV

[Levente]

Yaaay! That's good news!

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 15:18 Brian <b_lists at patandbrian.org wrote:

> On 1/9/19 3:53 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> OK, further information in case anybody else is having the problem.
> Thanks to Olivier telling me the correct term for the problem, I've
> managed to do some research. If you plug 'TV overscan' into a search
> engine, you'll get a lot of information about the history of overscan.
> You'll also learn that there are a LOT of different terms for it, that
> it's switched on by default in most if not all TVs (because the
> manufacturers assume that you're going to use it as a TV rather than a
> computer monitor), and that there's no consistent way to turn it off.
>
> Some manufacturers have it plainly labelled as 'overscan' in the
> menus. Some Element TVs (the 40 inch model) have it in a HIDDEN menu
> that you have to know how to access, and apparently it resets the
> setting every power cycle.
>
> On the 31 inch model which I have, the solution is to go to the
> picture menu, selected advanced, and then instead of having HDMI Mode
> set to 'auto' (which you would obviously expect would be the best
> setting, no?) you have to set it to 'graphic'. THAT is what sets
> overscan off **on this particular model of TV**.
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
> > On 1/8/19 4:10 AM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> That's overscan, quite common with TV.
> >>
> >
> > Well, possibly not surprisingly, now I've finally heard back from
> > Element, they're blaming my PC rather than their TV.
> >
> > I think this is BS on their part, I've tried every resolution of which
> > my graphics card is capable, all exhibit the problem, and the two
> > other different models of Element TV which I have here both work
> > WITHOUT showing the overscan. That seems to me to be quite enough
> > elimination testing to isolate the problem to the TV.
> >
> > So, I think it's back to Wal-Mart with it, and try another TV or
> > possibly even a different brand. At least I now know what to call the
> > problem! :)
> >
> > Brian.
> >
> >
> >> Cheers,
> >> Olivier
> >>
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