External Display Re-sizing

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External Display Re-sizing

I have a 13" macbook that I am connecting to a 26" Panasonic Viera via a Display to HDMI adapter. The macbook recognizes the TV just fine but there are parts of the desktop that I can not see on the TV. For example, when i hit the green plus button on safari for the window to fill the screen I can not see the top or the bottom of the window unless I drag the window up or down. Does anyone know how to fix this?

13" Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 1, 2009 2:37 PM

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Jubz

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Dec 3, 2009 4:49 AM in response to imlaqua

its probably set on overscan, on the system prefs for displays, untick the overscan option for the tv

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imlaqua Author

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Dec 8, 2009 7:09 PM in response to Jubz

Thanks, that works but now the window doesn't fill up the whole screen. Is there any other way?

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BSteely

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Dec 8, 2009 7:56 PM in response to imlaqua

See what kind of picture or screen Size settings are available either through the Panasonic's remote or else through its menu system. Often there is a setting called Just Scan, or Full or something like that which will cause the Mac desktop to just exactly fill the screen, same as with a computer monitor.

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