04-03-2009, 12:16 PM

I've got a MBP running OS X Tiger. When I run a slide show it looks great. But when I plug the MBP into my Samsung 32-inch DLP, the same slideshow looks terrible because all the pictures are stretched out, so people look fat and distorted.

I have spent hours troubleshooting this, and I'm not making any headway.

When I go to System preferences > Display, it's clear OS X recognizes the Samsung and is setting it to a resolution of 1024 X 768. That's precisely the resolution my Samsung manual says the TV should have. But when the slideshow runs voila, there are those awful-looking pics.

I am at wit's end, and I have a 50th wedding anniversary to attend in a matter of hours, and this 500-slide show is supposed to be the main attraction. Can someone pretty please help me ASAP?

04-03-2009, 01:41 PM

Question - Are you sure it's a DLP? DLP screens are projection based screens and the smallest samsung I could find was a 42" - I only ask as I was trying to check the resolution you gave.

It sounds like you have a widescreen TV, and you're displaying a 4:3 image on it - IF you have a widescreen tv (whether it be a LCD or a DLP or a plasma, etc.) you should probably be using a widescreen resolution. But, assuming that the max res it can display is 1024x768 - check your manual for your TV settings, you're going to have to make sure it isn't set to Zoom, and probably that it is set to 4:3 otherwise it will stretch the picture like what you are talking about.

04-03-2009, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Nethfel

Question - Are you sure it's a DLP? DLP screens are projection based screens and the smallest samsung I could find was a 42" - I only ask as I was trying to check the resolution you gave.

It sounds like you have a widescreen TV, and you're displaying a 4:3 image on it - IF you have a widescreen tv (whether it be a LCD or a DLP or a plasma, etc.) you should probably be using a widescreen resolution. But, assuming that the max res it can display is 1024x768 - check your manual for your TV settings, you're going to have to make sure it isn't set to Zoom, and probably that it is set to 4:3 otherwise it will stretch the picture like what you are talking about.

Or that.

04-03-2009, 01:47 PM

It might not be the adaption of the monitor which is the problem, but the photo's themselves. I'm assuming that these are .jpg's, correct ? The question then is, what is the resolution of these pictures ? It might be that if you're simply using preview , it might be stretching the pics out beyond a resolution that they're capable of going to without distorting.

It's almost like setting a desktop picture which doesn't fit, but telling the monitor to "stretch to fit" anyway. In that case, it might be possible to use some other program in order to view the slideshow, while keeping the photos' at their native resolution. But then in that case, your photos won't be filling in the entire 32" of the LCD.

I could be totally off the mark though, but this is the first thing which comes to mind.