adams89
Novice Member
Hi Guys,
I've just recently joined the world of projectors, and I am so very impressed thus far.
I purchased an Optoma 144x 1080P 3200 ANSI Lumens projector and the quality is fantastic.
One big issue however, is I am unable to maximise the use of the projection area.
Here are some details on my set up:
Problem
The image displayed by the projector is fine, 16:9, but it is not utilising the entire area projected, there is a 4 inch black bar all around the displayed output from the PC.
Initially this was even worse, the black bars were bigger when I set the resolution of the PC HDMI signal to 1920 x 1080.
But I found a hack by forcing a custom resolution of 1920 x 1079, the image got larger, but still maintained sharpness. The image looks 1080p to my eyes, just still some black bars around the image wasting space.
I get about 80 inch projected image at the moment, when it could be 88 inches at least, of viewable image.
The projector has a test grid which is can display so you can center the projector on the wall. And the grid is bigger than the output image from my PC. This is annoying me because the Projector is 1080P native and I am outputting 1079P active signal from my pc.
Im stuck? Any ideas? Fiddled for hours
I've just recently joined the world of projectors, and I am so very impressed thus far.
I purchased an Optoma 144x 1080P 3200 ANSI Lumens projector and the quality is fantastic.
One big issue however, is I am unable to maximise the use of the projection area.
Here are some details on my set up:
- The resolution of the projector is 1920 x 1080.
- I am driving the projector as a secondary/extended display using my PC
- My PC is outputting a digital resolution of 1920 x1079 as the active signal
- Projector is connected to my PC via a HDMI cable
- Projector has been configured to 16:9 aspect ratio
- Graphics card GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia Control Panel, Windows 10
Problem
The image displayed by the projector is fine, 16:9, but it is not utilising the entire area projected, there is a 4 inch black bar all around the displayed output from the PC.
Initially this was even worse, the black bars were bigger when I set the resolution of the PC HDMI signal to 1920 x 1080.
But I found a hack by forcing a custom resolution of 1920 x 1079, the image got larger, but still maintained sharpness. The image looks 1080p to my eyes, just still some black bars around the image wasting space.
I get about 80 inch projected image at the moment, when it could be 88 inches at least, of viewable image.
The projector has a test grid which is can display so you can center the projector on the wall. And the grid is bigger than the output image from my PC. This is annoying me because the Projector is 1080P native and I am outputting 1079P active signal from my pc.
Im stuck? Any ideas? Fiddled for hours