Comments on: Intel Mac mini, Panasonic plasma, Overscan solution

By: Eric Mazzone

Eric Mazzone — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:12:45 +0000

I’m trying to get my late 2009 mini working with a Panasonic TC-42C2 HDTV. This monitor is supposed to run 720p but no matter what setting I try I can’t get rid of this dang overscan issue. Could someone please help?

Thanks in advance.

By: Jono

Jono — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:51:23 +0000

This thread didn’t solve my problem completely, but it did lead to the solution. I have a Panasonic TH-42PV500A 42″ Plasma. I think it is the same as the TH-4vPV500U. It was made about 2005 and doesn’t have any menu overscan settings for the HDMI input.

The settings in the OP above were still a bit too big with the “overscan” option enabled in the OSX display preferences. While playing around with SwitchResX ( http://www.madrau.com/indexSRX4.html ), I found that these worked:

Pixel Clock: 60.46

Horizontal
- 1224 pixels
- 136 front porch
- 80 sync
- 208 back porch

Vertical
- 680 lines
- 26 front porch
- 5 sync
- 39 back porch

So it just takes 10 lines off the height and adds it to the back porch. Hope this helps someone else.

By: Lowex

Lowex — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:10:47 +0000

Thanks Steve that overscan TV setting worked a treat. I have a

PANASONIC 37″ LCD

Go To > Menu > Setup > Picture Overscan : Off … then turn overscan on in Mac Display settings

By: jabba

jabba — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:35:17 +0000

in V10 the mode THX has overscan deactivated by default, not the Cinema mode.

By: jabba

jabba — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:34:16 +0000

Every panasonic TV 2008-2010 does 1:1 perfectly with mac. I have a pz81 and a V10 50 inch. Simply you need to disable overscan in menu settings.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:11:22 +0000

Sorry, previous post should’ve been for the new P50V20 (not the V10).

I have heard from a forum poster that the P58V10 (58″ version, obviously) does do 1:1 perfectly. I haven’t confirmed with my own eyes, just reporting.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:09:29 +0000

A friend of mine just bought a P50V10 and reports that his Mac mini does not do a 1:1 pixel mapping. He has to use overscan to fill the screen and gets bleed over.

Heading to his house tonight to play with SwtichResX to see if we can do some custom settings.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:28:23 +0000

Hello,

Could somebody explain the procedure to use DisplayConfigX to apply those settings?

Thanks in advance!

Mike

By: Vincent Bremond

Vincent Bremond — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:27:32 +0000

Hi Jason, which Panasonic plasma do you have?
I’d like to buy the Viera P50V10 and use it with my apple mini, but before I want to be sure they’re fully compatible.
Best regards

By: Jason Hull

Jason Hull — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:01:40 +0000

I have a panasonic 50 inch plasma and I fixed the issue by simply changing the TVs menu option:

Menu -> Picture ->Advanced Picture -> HD Size -> Size 2

Size 1 seems to overscan and Size 2 does’t… it’s perfect. No need for extra software.