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lessthanzero
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Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 8:37PM
Black 1/2 mat border around the inside my 27" Regular ass TV

Anyone else have one of these or know if it can be removed? It has been there since I bought it from Circuit City a couple of years ago. Still bothers me especially because it covers part of the bottom line on ESPNews.

Edited by - lessthanzero on Oct 26 2006

Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 9:27PM
The matte border is not the problem. The overscan is set too high on your TV. Most TV's have a service menu that can be accessed by a series of buttons pressed on the TV & Remote.

Once in the Service menu, things like overscan can be adjusted. However, someone who doesn't know what he's doing can completely screw things up while in the Service mode. So, unless you know what you are doing, I wouldn't go there.

If it really bothers you, bring the TV to a repair shop authorized for your brand of TV. Ask them to make the adjustment for you.

budtugley
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Posted - Oct 28 2006 : 11:47PM
There's another possibility. You have the picture set to closed captioning. It's used to display text on the TV screen. Some deaf folks use it and some businesses like the TV picture with the sound muted so they want the text displayed to follow along. If it's turned on w/out the closed captioning decoder, it displays a black border around the edge of the screen. You should be able to disable closed captioning somewhere in the setup menu.

Edited by - budtugley on 10/28/2006 11:51:22 PM




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