DeFlanko wrote:lets double check the settings on your PS3 or even TV, Nothing is set to Stretch or pan/scan?
Well christ. I have found the problem. It was my TV afterall. But here's the deal. I've had this TV for three years. So far, everytime I wanted to mess with the image settings, I had to press the "options" button on the remote and go into "image settings". There, I could mess around with colors, game mode and other such things.
However ! I have just now discovered that there is
another series of settings, called "screen settings", which are
only accessible through the TV's XMB. In those settings, there was a parameter called "display zone", which was set to "normal". The other two values were "-1" and "+1". "-1" zoomed in the image even further, while "+1" magically zoomed out a little bit and displayed the entire image, as can be seen on my computer !
Wow. I did this while playing a movie on my PS3; when I quit the movie and got back to the console's XMB, I meddled with the values again and confirmed that I
was missing parts of the image on there as well. This means that, for the past three years,
I have been playing games and watching shit on this TV with part of the image cut off. WOW. I cannot fucking believe this. Now that I think about it, whenever a game would ask me to resize the image to fit my TV properly, I always had to zoom it out a little bit. I never paid any attention to it. It's weird though, how the "normal" value was displaying a zoomed-in image that had to be offset with the "+1" value.
MAN. I am sure glad this is over. Thank you for helping out, good sir. I would have never found it if I hadn't come here.