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[RoH]

I have a 52” DLP television that I mainly use for XBOX gaming, I connected a PS2 to this television using the regular A/V cables but noticed that all games would not use the full screen. I had Black Borders on the left and right side of the Television screen, does any one knows if getting HD Composite cables will fix this?

 

[dark10x]

The system doesn't really overscan the image like the other consoles. There is nothing you can do.

 

[sgt]

Just guessing you're playing a game in 4:3 mode and your TV is not set to stretch on the composite input.

 

[Lord Error]

e system doesn't really overscan the image like the other consoles. There is nothing you can do.

That's pretty much it. Stretch the screen horizontally a bit if you want, and if you can do it (by going into the service menu of your TV or using regular controls for this if there are any)

 

[RoH]

Just guessing you're playing a game in 4:3 mode and your TV is not set to stretch on the composite input.

The TV has 5 or so stretch modes most of them retain the black border, only one of them will expand it to full screen but cuts parts of the top bottom and sides off. I really thought getting some HD cables would fix that but i guess i was wrong.

 

[vatstep]

Just guessing you're playing a game in 4:3 mode and your TV is not set to stretch on the composite input.

That's probably not it. Even when the 4:3 image is stretched, or when playing a 16:9 game, the PS2 will have small black borders on the sides if your display is properly calibrated to have little-to-no overscan. Obviously this doesn't affect most people, because they have no idea what overscan is.

 

[Shompola]

Looks just fine on my TVs.. The black borders are no worse than Xbox or GC one.

 

[Shawn]

Um, it's supposed to have black borders around the image.

 

[RoH]

Looks just fine on my TVs.. The black borders are no worse than Xbox or GC one.

I don’t have a problem with my XBOX at all; it fills the whole screen though I am using HD cables for the XBOX. It’s just the PS2 I use regular A/V cables on it, but did not want to waste the money on any HD PS2 cables if it would not help or fix the problem.

 

[The Main Event]

All my consoles are plugged using component cables. Only the Xbox fills the entire screen on my Hitachi 60v500.

The black borders only appear on the left and right of the screen, but it doesn't bother me that much. I wouldn't go into the service menu to change it (if you can) since it would mess up your other video sources.

 

[RoH]

I've been reading up on this problem and the consensus seems to be "that’s how it is", so there is nothing I can do about it, I'm just SoL.

Thanks for the Help GA you guys do have a use... some times

 

[Nick Laslett]

I'm not sure what the facts are exactly. But I believe most PS2 games use a 640x440 resolution. They let the TV overscan hide the missing 40 lines.

On my Plasma, I have to resize every PS2 game to fill the screen, they are short in every direction.

 

[dark10x]

That's not correct...

PS2 uses 640x448. He is talking about horizontal overscan, however. The left and right side are showing black borders, but the horizontal resolution (640) is the same as other consoles. The missing pixels create more of a minor letterboxing effect on the bottom of the screen.

 

[Ranger X]

Anyway you won't loose anything because of those borders. Every game have to respect a "safe screen" zone. Normally around 10% of the screen isn't containing any important things. (it's TRC)

 

[jett]

Heh, I thought this was going to be about the black borders certain PS2 games have, like FFX and Dark Cloud 2.

 

[Lazy8s]

Quite a few Xbox games render 720x480, actually, so that extra horizontal resolution might make the difference on left/right borders for TVs with large viewable screen areas.

 

[RoH]

I have to use some super stretch mode on my television to eliminate the black boarders but it always cuts off the top and bottom portion of the game being displayed, I don’t think I can manually adjust my television to stretch the image. So far I’ve tried 6-8 games and the all do the same thing. I guess I just have to live with the black boarders.