widescreen tv out

[J.Clarke]

I have the RCA out on my ATI 7000 PCI connected to a 28" widescreen TV

I cant seem to get any widescreen modes to work.

I used powerstrip to make a 960x576 and 1024x576 mode, but these seem
to activate the panning desktop feature rather then give me a
widescreen output.

The ATI control panel options for the tv out are pretty sparse about
selecting overscan etc too, when running 800x600 I still had black
borders too, how to eliminate these? It was easy on my geforce card,
but I have no AGP in this box so I got this cheap PCI radeon.

Does NTSC allow wide screen modes?

 

[Richard Malcolm-Smith]

I have the RCA out on my ATI 7000 PCI connected to a 28" widescreen TV

I cant seem to get any widescreen modes to work.

I used powerstrip to make a 960x576 and 1024x576 mode, but these seem to
activate the panning desktop feature rather then give me a widescreen output.

The ATI control panel options for the tv out are pretty sparse about selecting
overscan etc too, when running 800x600 I still had black borders too, how to
eliminate these? It was easy on my geforce card, but I have no AGP in this box
so I got this cheap PCI radeon.

 

[Richard Malcolm-Smith]

Does NTSC allow wide screen modes?

Its PAL, not NTSX, and on all monitors except DVI, the horizontal is analog so
you can have any res you like, it just means things are not square.

I can use the zoom mode of the TV to crop the top and bottom of the screen, but
this means I am losing resolution.

 

[JohnB]

I have already tried 3d tweak,
It basically does the same thing as powerstrip which is to set the
resolution up for the card. Unfortunately it still does not force the
monitor to display this mode. It just wants to pan at 640x480!!!

 

[stanlin810]

I think this might be an easy problem to solve. Have u gone to the Overlay
tab in the control-panel? Then click on clone mode opitions. Try filling
the Display aspect 16:9 (Widescreen) instead of Display 4.3 (Standard TV)
hth
Stanlin810

 

[Richard Malcolm-Smith]

I think this might be an easy problem to solve. Have u gone to the Overlay
tab in the control-panel? Then click on clone mode opitions. Try filling
the Display aspect 16:9 (Widescreen) instead of Display 4.3 (Standard TV)

I want to use it as the only monitor, not as a clone of the overlay that is
playing, so this shouldnt make any difference. I will give it a go.

All I am looking for is the ability to get the widescreen resolutions in the
list that I can choose, which powerstrip has added, but the TV output device
will not display the full picture, just a panned part of it, and it assumes that
its a 4:3 display, there seems no way to set it for 16:9 desktop output on the
tv out.

I had to add the 1280x768 of a plasma panel too, to get that working on the DVI
out properly. Sadly I had to give that back to the person I was borrowing it off.

 

[stanlin810]

Can't u go to ur Display tab and make ur Tv the main monitor? There is a tab
near the Tv display that lets u make ur TV the main Monitor, and the
computer montior the clone.

Try choosing the double circle next to TV in Display.

 

[JohnB]

Ok,
I got widescreen working by fluke. This is what I did,
I set my monitor (monitor1) to what it was (Auriga19cf) - I downloaded the
driver from Auriga
I set monitor2 to plug and play

I found this page with all the widescreen modes
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=2383067aaef1ba7bf11dba9049b5
7045&threadid=206854

I copied the 856x480 mode to the clipboard (right click and copy)
856x480p=856,87,48,121,480,28,1,54,37530,272

I went into Powerstrip then --display profiles--Configure-advanced
timings--custom resolutions--user defined, click the "paste" button on the
right of the screen - then press Add new resolution
At that point I was asked to reboot which I did
I went back into powerstrip and the mode worked ok
I then pressed Save and called the Mode Wide 480...

Hope this helps. Dont know which bit was important but it seemed to work...