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Apr 17

DisplayConfigX is one of two or three decent tools for making OS X play nice with televisions, with powerful overscan correction settings. However, the documentation is sorely lacking a single sentence that could have saved about 4 hours of my life:

After installing new resolutions and rebooting, you may need to open Display Preferences and re-select the desired resolution.

For whatever reason, the changes I made took hold immediately after rebooting, but the overall display geometry didn't correct itself to compensate. I just couldn't seem to get the settings to do what I expected based on the documented behavior. Switching down to 800x600 and back forced the display geometry to recalibrate.

After about 4 hours of tweaking porches, rebooting, RTFMing, and googling for other folks' run-ins with DisplayConfigX, I figured I should try something different. In hindsight, I feel pretty foolish for not doing it sooner.

At any rate, here are the settings I finally landed on for my Philips 32PF7320A/37 32" LCD TV: