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Posted by Beemer on 04/25/06 06:39
"Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4e1c9e605bdave@davenoise.co.uk...
| In article <3123g.13647$xt.5548@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
| Lee Mellows <mellowsSPAM@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
| > Believe me, we've all been looking at overscanned images all our lives
| > with no problem.
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| You might have been - I haven't. All my earlier CRT sets were set up
| correctly. I work in broadcasting production and watch underscanned
| monitors. I hate seeing things chopped off when I know they weren't framed
| like that.
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| > The advent of 16:9 makes absolutely no difference to this. 4:3 images
| > fill the frame of a 4:3 tv and 16:9 images fill the frame of a 16:9 tv.
| > In exactly the same way with exactly the same amount of cutoff (give or
| > take a bit depending on the tv).
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| The big difference is that early CRTs weren't rectangular so unless you
| accepted a black border only the centres of each side, top and bottom
| could be correct. Although some better makers like B&O actually masked to
| a rectangle.
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| Modern Plasma, LCD and DLP etc all have near perfect rectangles. So there
| is absolutely no excuse for any overscan at all. As I said before it's
| done for the showroom to make the picture appear bigger - and probably to
| save some effort in manufacture setting up.
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| *Born free...Taxed to death.
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| Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
| To e-mail, change noise into sound.
PMFJI - A little OT but perhaps you might answer a related question which is
that on my Sony widescreen CRT TV the bottom half of the scrolling Sky text
is off the bottom of the screen. I can move the picture up manually using
the handset toggle but this position does not stick which is a pain. I have
tried all zoom settings and it makes no difference on the lost half of the
text. Is this indicative of too much overscan?
Beemer
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