Anybody use POWERSTRIP with a Sony KV30HS420?

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hey Dan,
i just set up my system about 2 weeks ago. there are a lot of predefined
Powerstrip resolutions that you can try out. i'm using one of those,
848x480p. it works ok, i wonder if i can tweak it more.

i'm running a pretty old system...All-in-Wonder Radeon, using S-video for TV
out.

the guides do look intimidating, but it's not really that bad. btw, i think
you'll love the TV. i sure do.

cheers,
mk

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"dg" <dan_gus@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<p0ALc.24563$Qv6.3451@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>...

>Does anybody have any tips they can give me?

First tip--make sure the date on your computer is set correctly
BEFORE installing Powerstrip. Otherwise, you could get a very
nasty surprise when you correct the date if you haven't
registered the program.

Second tip--brace yourself for a lot of frustration. Powerstrip
is an extremely unintuitive program, and there are bizarre
"easter egg" type ways to do things. For example, a lot of times
interlaced displays won't work unless you turn off "tiling mode".
The display will look trashed and non-interlaced, but with a
working mouse pointer. How do you fix "tiling mode"? You go
to the display configuration window, then you click on the button
to go to the timing configuration window, then you click on the
button to go to the custom resolutions window, and then you
double-click on the TEXT LABEL that says "New Custom Resolutions".
You have to navigate through three different windows, two of which
have no obvious connection to what you want to do, and then you
have to double-click on something which has nothing to do with
what you want to do and doesn't even look like anything to click
on!

Another example--if you want to select a particular resolution
but don't see it listed, you can double-click on the icon which
looks like a monitor. This icon is a label, and doesn't look
like anything to click on at all. Bizarre.

Even the basics are handled in a bizarre unintuitive way. For
instance, you can't change the amount of vertical underscan in
the timing adjustment window. You need to define a custom
resolution to do this. I won't describe all the steps required
to do it. However, it's worth the extra effort so you can tweak
things into a full screen display which is visible edge-to-edge
with nice square pixels.

The key is patience and perserverence. In order to acheive
optimal results, you need to be able to keep a cool head.
Get ready to take many breaks to calm down from frustration.
Otherwise, you will either die from a heart attack or your
computer and/or TV will suffer severe physical damage when
you take your frustrations out.

Oh, and one last piece of encouragement--sometimes DVI just
doesn't work out at all. I've only ever needed to use RGBHV
myself, which is the easiest to get to work. DVI, in contrast,
is sometimes basically incompatible.

Isaac Kuo