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I've been waiting for the new Mac Mini to be released before I took the plunge into the Mac world (my wife worked long and hard to convert me), so with the release last week I went ahead and purchased a 2.26/4GB/320GB model to use as the center of my home entertainment system. I'm connecting it to a Samsung 40" 1080p LCD (LN-S4095D) via the mini DVI to DVI converter and a DVI to HDMI cable.
The image quality is fantastic, but the problem is I either get a "cropped" screen (about 1" or so is cut off on all sides so I can't see the menu bar or 1/3 of the dock icons) when overscan is enabled or a "letterbox" effect where I can see everything on the desktop but black borders surround the image with overscan is disabled. I called Apple support and did some fairly extensive web surfing but can't seem to find a solution yet, so any help is very welcome! My next step would be to suck it up and just use a VGA connection, but that kinda defeats the purpose of high def...
The image quality is fantastic, but the problem is I either get a "cropped" screen (about 1" or so is cut off on all sides so I can't see the menu bar or 1/3 of the dock icons) when overscan is enabled or a "letterbox" effect where I can see everything on the desktop but black borders surround the image with overscan is disabled. I called Apple support and did some fairly extensive web surfing but can't seem to find a solution yet, so any help is very welcome! My next step would be to suck it up and just use a VGA connection, but that kinda defeats the purpose of high def...