jaynews wrote:
I recently bought a Toshiba 29L1350U LED backlit TV. When viewing 480 (Non-HD) widescreen material via the antenna or composite input, the sides get cut off a little, which is annoying when watching a certain financial news channel that begins with the letter B. No other TV in my house has this issue with the identical signal via the identical type of input, and I've tried all the settings on the Toshiba TV, etc.

I've called Toshiba tech support, and they admit they can't resolve this issue.

I have the opposite problem, of sorts. If I connect a bluray player over
HDMI to my epson projector, and play a DVD the projector tries to make the
video fill the screen and then distorts the aspect, usually horribly. It
has someting to do with the projector being 16:9 or whatever they are
these days.

There's probably a magic combination of settings to disable this nonsense,
but the solution is just run RGB cables from and old DVD player to the
projector and watch stuff that way. Bluray discs play fine.

I did discover there are "zoom" settings in some of my devices that are
digital and have a composite out signal as well. The default setting in a
WD live media box, out of the composite port resulted in what seemed to be
a ridiculous amount of overscanning on a coventional TV. Menus were
chopped off and off the screen. It looked like having "zoom" enabled on
some zenith console television. Tinkering with this got it working again
with the old TV set.

It's possible your TV has crappy defaults overscan and that just sucks for
you. Does your source device have any sort of zoom setting that can be
fiddled with to compensate for the TV? I had no idea these even exist, but
it does on some devices.