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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 816603" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>The only answer I can give is the stock answer saying that it has to do with TV's and the fact that they overscan. As you have already found out, by turning off overscan on your Mac, you end up with a black border around all four sides of your TV screen.</p><p></p><p>This is a lot of bunk. This is one of the areas where Windows has it right and the Mac just flat out has it wrong. I've been using computers attached to HDTV's via HDMI for well over 3 years now and this is only an issue on Mac's. It is not an issue in Linux (at least for the versions that will work with HDMI as not all of them will) and it is not an issue in Windows from XP forward. </p><p></p><p>I am typing this booted up into Win 7 on my MBP and windows fills my TV screen using HDMI perfectly, exactly where it should. No overscan to turn on and off. In this particular matter, I have to say, Windows "just works" and the Mac doesn't.</p><p></p><p>As much as I like OS X, this is a big gripe for me. It's caused me to hold off setting up an HTPC for the 2 years I've been considering it now.</p><p></p><p>The mini's improved graphics almost has me ready to get one for an HTPC, but this single issue still has me sitting on pause.</p><p></p><p>This has to boil down to either OS X not having the capability of reading the EDID of the TV and knowing what to do or not requesting this matter to be fixed in the driver of the graphics cards Apple is using.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 816603, member: 24160"] The only answer I can give is the stock answer saying that it has to do with TV's and the fact that they overscan. As you have already found out, by turning off overscan on your Mac, you end up with a black border around all four sides of your TV screen. This is a lot of bunk. This is one of the areas where Windows has it right and the Mac just flat out has it wrong. I've been using computers attached to HDTV's via HDMI for well over 3 years now and this is only an issue on Mac's. It is not an issue in Linux (at least for the versions that will work with HDMI as not all of them will) and it is not an issue in Windows from XP forward. I am typing this booted up into Win 7 on my MBP and windows fills my TV screen using HDMI perfectly, exactly where it should. No overscan to turn on and off. In this particular matter, I have to say, Windows "just works" and the Mac doesn't. As much as I like OS X, this is a big gripe for me. It's caused me to hold off setting up an HTPC for the 2 years I've been considering it now. The mini's improved graphics almost has me ready to get one for an HTPC, but this single issue still has me sitting on pause. This has to boil down to either OS X not having the capability of reading the EDID of the TV and knowing what to do or not requesting this matter to be fixed in the driver of the graphics cards Apple is using. [/QUOTE]
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