Sheesh. Turns out that Catalina has all sorts of problems with external monitors (just google: external monitor "catalina").
At first: no signal whatsoever when I hooked my MacBook Pro on our Samsung TV (someting I have used without worry or bather for years). So, just as if I were using Linux or Windows, I marched off to the internet to see what I could do to get some basic functionality to work at its base level. Oh! Need to reset the SMC and the NVRAM, sez the community. After resetting the SMC and NVRAM, screen mirroring sort of worked. Unfortunately, the screen mirroring didn't really work, because all four outer edges of the display were cut off (effectively about a menu bar's worth of width missing on all four edges of the screen, so: no menu bar). Oh, and no sound on the TV either (guess I should check another setting... just works? doubt it). To add insult to injury, I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the volume, so within 2 minutes of watching a movie, the left speaker on my laptop blew out. Built to last? doubt it. Community sez this is rare and an NVRAM reset should fix things. Nope. So, now even the next update won't fix the damage done by this piss-poor out for an update to an operating system. Bill
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