[itsme213@hotmail.com]

I have my new mac mini hooked via dvi-to-hdmi to a 1080p samsung. If I enable "overscan" on the mini dislpay I lose the edges (including the top menu bar). If I disable overscan I get a fat black border (at least 3"+ on each side).

Help! I got the mini for just this purpose and this is bumming me out.

[ibook_steve]

What type of media are you trying to watch? Standard TV (4:3) will have black bars on the side on an HD set.

Steve

[mduell]

What model is the Samsung? What resolution are you trying to run it at?

[itsme213@hotmail.com]

The Mac mini correctly and automatically boots up on 1920x1080. The TV is a Samsung HL-T6187S. The black borders show up with the Mac desktop (and anything else shown thereafter, including full 720P and full HD video).

[mduell]

Looks like you can use VGA with that TV to get 1:1 pixel mapping... really silly, but not uncommon.

edit: One last thought, try changing the refresh rate with the DVI/HDMI hookup to something other than 60Hz... 59.952 or 60.02 or whatever.