How to Use Emotiva UMC-200 as Secondary Display in Windows 8

[wrobo]

Hi Folks,

I have an Emotiva UMC-200 as well as a Sherbourn 7-350.  Bought them the 2nd half this year and extremely pleased.

I currently have an HDMI connection from the back of the PC into HDMI Input 4 (Game) on the UMC-200.  I am able to get a picture on my main display (Panny 65" plasma), however, the display overfills the TV screen (cutting out some of the top and sides).  I have fiddled with the TV's adjustments (4:3, Fill, Justify,...) and this does nothing for the information that is displayed outside of the TV's field of view (other than smushing the picture down).

In trying to play with the video setting in the NVidia panel, it recognizes the UMC-200 as REKON-UMC-200 (not Emotiva).  It will not allow me to make any adjustments to this panel.  I am thinking that there is little to no driver information for it.

Are there any drivers for the UMC-200 that can be installed in Windows 8 to help correct this situation?  Another option might be to hook my HDMI into the Panasonic TV (and hope there is a Win8 driver) and then feed the volume back to the UMC-200 via optical digital.  I would prefer to stay away from this.

Has anyone else come across this issue?  Comments and feedback would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Jeff

[KeithL]

We don't have Windows drivers for the UMC-200, but the video card should detect the supported video modes from the HDMI EDID (apparently it does - to a point - or it wouldn't work).
(Since the UMC-200 doesn't re-sample or upscale the picture, it can't and won't alter the picture size or shape).

I think you're going to have to look to NVidia for a driver or control panel with more control options.

Dec 17, 2013 13:14:53 GMT -5 wrobo said:

Hi Folks,

I have an Emotiva UMC-200 as well as a Sherbourn 7-350.  Bought them the 2nd half this year and extremely pleased.

I currently have an HDMI connection from the back of the PC into HDMI Input 4 (Game) on the UMC-200.  I am able to get a picture on my main display (Panny 65" plasma), however, the display overfills the TV screen (cutting out some of the top and sides).  I have fiddled with the TV's adjustments (4:3, Fill, Justify,...) and this does nothing for the information that is displayed outside of the TV's field of view (other than smushing the picture down).

In trying to play with the video setting in the NVidia panel, it recognizes the UMC-200 as REKON-UMC-200 (not Emotiva).  It will not allow me to make any adjustments to this panel.  I am thinking that there is little to no driver information for it.

Are there any drivers for the UMC-200 that can be installed in Windows 8 to help correct this situation?  Another option might be to hook my HDMI into the Panasonic TV (and hope there is a Win8 driver) and then feed the volume back to the UMC-200 via optical digital.  I would prefer to stay away from this.

Has anyone else come across this issue?  Comments and feedback would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Jeff

[garbulky]

wrobo your tv may have a feature that is doing just that to the HDMI signal. They do it to prevent wierd artifacts on the edges. There may be a setting on your tv to put it back to 1:1 mode. Also the nvidia control panel probably has a setting. It's likely found under the nvidia control panel (make sure you have the latest update to the driver) under display-> "adjust display size and position." The tabs scaling and size should help.

[klinemj]

I had this with my UMC-1 and my PC (which is Windows 8). It was working fine, but then I upgraded to Windows 8.1 this weekend and I ran into the issue you are having. Windows 8.1 showed my UMC-1 as "Digital TV". In addition to the edges running off the screen, the video quality was awful...so bad that when I tried right-clicking on the screen to bring up the display properties - I could no even read it on the projector (which gets its feed from the UMC-1). I turned the UMC-1 off and back on, and the resolution was back to being correct. And, then I was able to fiddle with various settings on the NVidia control panel and get the size right. I can't tell you exactly which ones I used as I was just clicking options until I hit something, and it worked out.

Bottom line - you should be able to get it worked out.

Mark

[wiskers]

Look for an option for scaling in the the video card's control panel and set it to zero.