Mac Mini - Sony Bravia display issue

Apologies for creating a confusion.

I entirely agree the this issue IS NOT SOLVED. I only commented on 15pin cable as a workaround and NOT a solution.
Being new to forums in general, I was not aware how 'solved' appeared against my comment.

Regards

Not sure whether to reply in this thread, or start another. But let me first start by saying that reverting to 10.5.6 did not resolve my problem.

I recently bought a new Mac mini to connect to my 37" Bravia. Using an mini-dvi -> dvi->HDMI connection, I can't get this thing to show a decent clean picture on my TV. My old 1.6 core duo mini has no problem, filling the TV screen with a clear perfect picture from edge to edge. But this one won't, no matter what I try. I get a large black border, or too big of a screen with overscan turned on.

I'm not sure what I am missing, but pretty frustrated. I thought my upgrade from the 1.6 core duo would be easy. I never thought I'd be dealing with a worse image on the TV.

Any ideas would be most appreciated.

I think I figured this out.

-Turn on overscan in the display prefs on the mac (the image should be cut off by the edges of the screen)
-on your TV's display settings go to "Display Area", its default setting is on "normal", instead, set it to "Full Pixel"

Hope that helps!

So this eliminates the black border (or overspill) so we can see the whole picture.

Note, the problem still exists for me from 10.5.7 though, as while I can see the entire picture I can only enable mode 1280x720 my Samsung's native 1360x768 res.

Are you seeing your Bravia's native res?

Sorry David.Austin.Allen but I could not disagree more with your comment about it not being Apples problem - that sounds very much like a Microsoft kind of answer, not an Apple answer. The drivers were "tampered" with and should not have been released without full checking. We are not all experts in how to manage through these things and that is where Apple need to help. I do not have the time or energy or inclination to go through a very complex reversion process at my time/expense - I am thoroughly disappointed with this upgrade, I have had numerous errors over the years with Microsoft upgrades on PCs and my move to Apple (two macbooks and a mac mini so far) was deliberate to encounter a far more professional approach to software upgrades and releases etc. The user interface via the screen is the single most important component of the experience (in my personal view) and therefore must be treated with the utmost respect coupled with extensive regression testing etc. This 10.5.7 clearly wasn't and is my first major disappointment with Apple, and I hope the last. The driver modifications were severe, ie extensive with the move to 1080p but it appears insufficient eyeballs were monitoring the impact on the 720p output.

Thank you, than you, thank you, for this tip!! Between this setting and changing my picture settings from vivid to custom, I am getting a gorgeous 1920x1080 full screen picture on my TV, running 10.5.7, with the TV reporting 16:9 1080p. I love it!!

breakdizzle wrote:
I think I figured this out.

-Turn on overscan in the display prefs on the mac (the image should be cut off by the edges of the screen)
-on your TV's display settings go to "Display Area", its default setting is on "normal", instead, set it to "Full Pixel"

Hope that helps!

so it seems those with native 1080 screens are okay but those with 720 screens - so the driver change from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 (which must have contained driver updates?) is where the problem lies.

Does anyone know how to revert purely the driver back to the one in 10.5.6? is this even possible on an apple? i know it is/was easy in windows but i am not aware if this is even possible on apples?

I would like to know if reverting just the drivers is possible as well.
I am also hoping that this display res issue will be addressed with the next update, or I will have to stay with 10.5.6 forever just to keep my display working?

I think this shouldn't happen with a device (Mini) that is specifically marketed as being compatible with 3rd party displays, etc.

so i succumbed and reverted to vga to try and get back to a sensible screen resolution, and now i think i have another problem...

i have a lot of shadows on the image, these are not present with the dvi/hdmioption.

i've tried numerous cables and checked the cables with other pc's/macbook's and they are all fine. plus i've tried the various options in the screen set-up on the mac-mini and tv (many an hour consumed doing all this...)

i've slowly and patiently tried many options/combinations and concluded that the VGA output via anyone of the apple adapters i have just do not cut it - so roll on the driver fix so i can go back to dvi/hdmi!

the other option of course is for me to go and buy a 1080p native screen, probably a tad expensive route to chose though...

roll on the driver fix!

thanks for the pointer to the adapter upgrade - the problem i am having is with the DVI to VGA conversion "dongle" that comes with the mac-mini, the little white adapter - not the (cable) one for the macbooks sadly. but thanks again for the details.

I have to disagree with you also David.Ausitn.Allen. Apple has always sold products "that just work". That's why we shell out the extra money for their products. I understand that they may not write the drivers for video cards but this issue is obviously not caused by user error. We just clicked Software Update. Its Apple's fault or their vendor's fault. We honestly don't care who's fault it is, just that it needs to be fixed.

I have a LG 42 inch LCD with a mac mini hooked up with a DVI to HDMI cable and got about the same results as others in here have when I upgraded to 10.5.7
After fooling with it for an hour I restored from my time capsule back to 10.5.6 where it will stay till Apple gets this fixed.