I have major overscan issues with my setup. has anyone made an app or is there even a hardware solution to having vertical and horizontal adjustment? some of the emulators allow this, but the menu of emulators themselves still are impossible to read.
When first booting up the Ouya I had the same problems and found it incredibly annoying.
But after some fiddling with my screen adjustment settings on my (Samsung Smart-) tv I found out that by putting it in "full screen" mode everything
becomes visible on screen and the overscan is gone.
I thing most modern tv's have this or a similar option so try it out.
Hope this helps.
How modern does modern have to be. I have a 5 year old samsung HD 1080 and it cant do this.
Is the official line from ouya that we must get a better tv. If thats the case it will be on ebay.
Yeah.... I am using a Sony KP-51WS510 51" projection TV....heck I have to run all HDMI via my vsx-1021 amp and then to a dvi port on TV.....so no that option does not exist for me. I have gotten so desperate I have gotten into TV service menu and tried to reduce overscan that way....but it's not the TV, it's definitely the Ouya. Even if I reduce TV's overscan to NOTHING via the tv service menu (which horribly distorts screen BTW, and would take massive calibration to get working right, I just did it as a test to see what was going on) But even if I could do that still large bits of menu on EMU's etc don't show. This makes programing buttons and using file system near impossible. I am starting to think this is an issue on some Ouya units as others don't have problem.
Are you sure you can't? I have a 5 year old Samsung also and spent a lot of time trying to find a way, even looked in the service menu...Originally Posted by samg78
Then one night while in the menu again... I chose "PC" as the name for my HDMI 3 port. My Samsung now thinks the Ouya is a PC connected and gives me a lot more options, I was then able to change the zoom/stretch and make the picture fit perfectly to my screen! I didn't think simply choosing PC for the name would do anything, I thought it was more for informational purposes but it works! try it if you haven't already.
My friends old plasma (around 5 years old) allows you to adjust the screen size, it even has a auto stretch option so you don't have to fiddle around with settings, use to have a old rear projection HDTV that allowed you to adjust stretch, zoom and aspect ratio.
Most people just overlook the option/setting not knowing what it does.
Look many of us who got the Ouya, got it because we are tech geeks and this is a great tech geek toy. However if the only market the Ouya has is as a Tech Geek toy...it won't have much of a lifespan. It is billed as a great gaming system on a "budget".....people on tight budgets don't generally have the latest TV etc....clearly many TVs are having issues even among a group of first users that are in general very tech savy....what market is Ouya trying to sell to? If it is to be a successful indie/retro/budget console, and alternative to the big names it had better darn well work on any HDTV, as it is a lot cheaper to just by a PS4 or XBOX One then it is to buy a new HDTV for the sake of Ouya compatibility, the more so when your current one works fine with other consoles......blaming the TV is a really bad idea both for Ouya, (which I havent' seen them do really) , and also a bad idea for anyone supporting the Ouya, the pages and pages on ouya's offical page complaining about this shows it is far from isolated.....it's an issue and whether it's a matter of just some units, or just some TV's either way it's a common enough problem it must be addressed.
This has been complained about ad nauseum. They will address it with future updates I'm sure. Patience!
Why the the hell should anyone be patient, because you're sure they will get around to fixing it eventually? Give me and everyone else a break from that.This has been complained about ad nauseum. They will address it with future updates I'm sure. Patience!
OUYA rushed the console out the door with major issues. You have no way of knowing if they even can fix it without effecting performance. Overscan compensation is supposed to be implemented by the games. OUYA approved a lot of games that do not do this.
The most desirable option that your TV display menu should have is "screen fit". I have no idea about digging in to service menus. Is it possible to convert hdmi to dvi and adjust screen image on some TVs that way?
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This needs to be the very next thing we see in the next firmware update. It's probably the most popular complaint (that can be fixed in an update).This has been complained about ad nauseum. They will address it with future updates I'm sure. Patience!
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