X360 Shifted Screen output

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Gawd
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Hi guys, I've been enjoying my Xbox 360 for about a month now, but there is a slight problem that is really getting on my nerves now.

Any game that I play, except for DOA4, little bits of the screen are cut off on the sides. This goes for PGR3, Condemned, and NFS:MW. I'm using the HD cables that came with the premium package. Screen settings in the Xbox Dash are set to 1080i Widescreen.

My TV is a Samsung 26'' Widescreen, model number tx-p2664w. It supports 480i/p and 1080i, no 720P support though :(. My understanding is that the Xbox should upscale a 720P picture to fit aa 1080i screen with no problems, right? Here are a few pictures of what I'm talking about. Does anybody know how to fix it?



 
looks like overscan, when I hooked my PC up to my TV I had a similar issue, my TV has a menu that let me shrink the picture a little so everything fit, but I dunno it all TVs have that.
 
Yeah, it did the same thing when I hooked up my 7800GT through DVI, but the nVidia drivers had an overscan/underscan correction. I don't think my TV has that.. not listed in the manual.
 
My HDTV does the same thing, not as bad though. Unfortunately, you can't really do anything about it.
 
My samsung LCD and CRT do the exact same thing. You might check your zoom settings on the TV, and you also might see if there is a screen posistioning command for the games in question.

Also, try setting the 360 to 1080i or 720p output just to see if anything changes. Pretty sure thats just how it is going to be, being that overscan comes into play on almost every TV to some effect.
 
I've tried the 720P out put and my TV just garbles up because it doesnt support it. I found a post on AVS forums with a guy that had similar problems, and the Xbox 360 support number sent out a new pair of cables and it made it better a little. I'll try calling them tomorrow.
 
I have the same problem on my 27" Zenith SDTV, but only with some games. Madden 06 and NBA 2K6 are the only ones I've seen that have problems. I used to play halo 2 all the time on my old xbox and I play it on the 360 a lot now and I don't notice a screen shift at all. I don't notice it in the dashboard or geometry wars either.
 
While mine doesn't do that, my TV offers the option to scale pictures a little in order to avoid this. I'd try that as I'd suspect it's just the TV scaling incorrectly. For example on my options screen it lets me "scrunch" the picture a little to add a tiny (adjustable) black line around everything so you can see the whole picture.
 
Does your TV have 4:3 pulldown or zoom settings that might be causing this? On my 51" HDTV sometimes it sets itself to 16:9 expanded or 4:3 expanded without my knowledge and I have to correct it to fit the screen properly.
 
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