Is 720p supposed to cut sides off?

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I have an HDTV, Sony Bravia 26" 720p, which is hooked up with my xbox at 720p through an HDMI cable. The native resolution of the TV, like most of 720p HDTV's does, is 1366x768.

When I first played MW2, I played with a 17" monitor. Then few days later I bought the HDTV. When I then ran it the HUDs were out of the screen but the game had option to move them. Then I thought every other game displayed everything perfectly until I figured out that after applying my custom theme, the side part of it were cut off.

Figuring out what's wrong with it, I found an option that says "optimal resolution", which recovered the lost sides,

The native size of the wallpaper is 1280x720p so it should have been displayed all side parts correctly, but apparently it didn't. But when I switch back to "optimal resolution", which tends to change the resolution to 1366x768, on the xbox setting menu the image displays every sides without cutting any edge.

I hate to use "optimal resolution" since the image looks more like it lost its color, whereas on 720p image has a strong color.

Is this suppose to be normal or is it that my TV is not displaying the sides correctly?
The TV is not on zoom mode or anything.

EDIT: I just figured out the upper and bottom sides also get cut.
Please help. :cry:


Just to give you better picture. I uploaded a gameplay picture of Left 4 Dead 2 to show you that there aren't "more gabs" like they should be in other screens.

MINE on 720p HD:
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2192/sherisdosopds.jpg
*you see there is some missing gabs unlike the picture below. I've seen many of the videos and they don't look like mine.

720p HD Screenshot from IGN:
http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/05/74/57416_orig.jpg

720p HD Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewcieMXHSc
 
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It does the same thing on my Sharp when it's on default settings. I got it to display the whole image by finding a "dot by dot" option with the view mode button on the remote. I don't know if that helps since you have a Bravia.
 
That sounds like it might be an overscan issue. Is there an option in your TV's video menu called "Adjust Overscan" or something similar? If so that might fix your problem.
 
[quote name='namtrahj']That sounds like it might be an overscan issue. Is there an option in your TV's video menu called "Adjust Overscan" or something similar? If so that might fix your problem.[/QUOTE]

What makes me angry is it does not even have that. I've been searching for it through manuals and options on the TV.
 
Did you go into the options in the game to make sure the edges of the screen are set properly? I'm thinking that I had to manually adjust the screen size on MW 2 to make sure the whole screen was showing properly.
 
On the component wire, flip the switch to HDTV. On the Xbox itself, go to the system settings, and video setting. Set everything up properly to match your TV.

Make sure that the component toggle switch is flipped though, it matters.
 
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