Possible to only draw part of screen and have rest completely off? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey,
So hoping someone can point me in the right direction here,
My use case is the following:
I will be using an android smart TV to feed into a projector. Normally it will be an 80" projection, however when I am watching network TV I would like to reduce the size of the projection to a smaller size (lets say 50").
So to do this I would like to be able to tell the Android TV to only 'draw' the bottom centre of the screen, so for example if the normal projection is 4k I would like to draw a 1080p picture in the bottom middle and have the rest of the picture essentially 'off'. An alternative would be to just send a black image to the rest of the picture but still only have the active part of the screen in the bottom middle.
Is this possible, and if so what should I be looking for?

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