Samsung TVs and HDMI Overscan

[Foo]

After an hour of fucking around and about 20 mins resigned to having wasted money on a DVI->HDMI Cable, I have the following advice to offer:

If you have a Samsung TV and wish to connect your PC using a DVI->HDMI connection, you may find that the picture is blurry and does not fit within the screen correctly.

If so, go into the TVs menus and change the 'name' of the HDMI connection you're using. One of the name options will be 'PC'. As soon as you change the name of the port to PC, everything starts working properly.

Completely, utterly undocumented on my TV. Waste of a fucking hour. I may phone Samsung tomorrow and throw a drama fit in the hope that they'll put it in the manual next time.

[AmIdYfReAk]

Both of my sammies work right off of the bat when i connect a DVI HDMI or a VGA to them..

as does my Sony come to think about it.

Thats fucked up though, Well done!
did you google that Fix, or was it a once in a million kinda deal?

[Foo]

Googled the same fix for a totally different Samsung unit, figured it was worth a try.

S'been a mixed day today. Also ordered a new router from ebuyer and they delivered me 3 cisco softphones instead. Not sure if that's good or bad, can prolly get £100 a pop on ebay

[Underpants?]

brilliant, foo...wonder if this will fix that horrid ubuntu ps3videomode issue I've been having