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Chunce DeLeone:

First and foremost I want to thank RubberPultry and Jwin for all their help with this TV, they have answered every question I have given them very quickly and completely......

Unfortunately I have not been able (Due to my own incompetence with Service Menu's) get the screen to a full size and now have tweaked the colors beyond repair......

Please just understand that these TV's may not do what you want right out of the box

And be careful with service menu.....

jWin:

Chunce: im not really sure why you cant get the screen to full size, does windows itself look chopped off?  H. Size will make the screen bigger from left to right , I believe that is #31 on the remote, and V.Size will make it bigger up and down which is around 05 or 06 on the remote I believe.    Just using those 2 alone should make the screen full size.  Ill write down my color settings and post them and you can compare them with RubberPultry's color settings he posted above,  but my screen settings are in a limbo at the moment from video card swapping.

I myself had 640x480 running perfectly but the screen flicker caused by the ATI to component dongle for 9x00 type cards was causing interlace flicker so now im trying to get a video card that does component without the dongle (nvidia 6/7 series, ATI x1k series) which has no flicker at all with component.   I tried out a Geforce 7300GT yesterday with component and the screen was great looking however it would only come in as black and white, no matter what I tried I could not get a color picture on a SDTV, worked fine on a HDTV though,  going to try out a ATI x1k next.

acevedor2: there is a lot of great TV's around but most have speakers on the side, which will instantly tell you it wont work in your cabinet, I know I would love to find a 27" HDTV without speakers on the side and in full-screen, or better yet a 27" fullscreen LCD.

Which video card are you guys using for output?

Chunce DeLeone:

JWIN......the vsize works perfect, I can get the vertical size to the edges of the bezel...when I then increase the       H-size the screen starts to curve on the sides and I get two horizontal choppys lines in two places

Maybee its a problem with my vid card ATI x550 PCIE
Maybee its the TV itself
I can't figure out why the H-size curves like it does
I have my resolution set to 640 432 30hz interlaced in Catalyst Control center,
When I look at the resolution in the windows display settings it still says 640 480 60hz
The window itself is not cut off, all of the screen is shown, it's been so frustrating to buy a 27inch TV and wind up with less screen, also with the colors being off now classic games such as Robotron have a little blurryness, and the Reds on all games flare way to bright, I don't know....I'm at a loss....my wife is going to kill me

Chunce DeLeone:

Jwin I just noticed you are using 640 480?????   Do you get the whole screen with that resolution or is some cut off????  May bee I can get that resolution working because when I do uuse 640 480 I get a bigger screen right of the bat it just seems that vertically some is cut off

Also just to not I have been able to get 1024 768 to show on the TV but the results aren't as crisp as 640 432.
What are your feeling about 1024 768 resolution on this TV????
Does a higher resolution result in less picture quality?

Chunce DeLeone:

 ;D don't ask me how but its working full screen perfect,
I installed powerstrip and did some trial and error and got some wacky results
All of a sudden it worked with a weird resolution I have since forgot
Then I got stupid and tried to change something else and got scrued
I had wavy junk on the screen while I tried lots of different combos of catalyst control center and windows display props and powerstrip
I was about to lose it
then I unistalled powersrtip and did some things and its is back to full screen perfect
the res says 800 600 100hz but i don't think that it what it is
I think powerstrip fooled with it and it is now some combo of PS and catatlyst
I wish I had an answer
some advice....be persistent and a little lucky :cheers:

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