Andrew Church wrote:
> >The strangest artifact to have found it's way into modern
> >televisions is overscan. The fact that my very expensive LCD TV has
> >artificial overscan really pisses me off.
>
> Yeah, I remember you mentioning that before, and I find it just as
> baffling. I guess I'll have to watch out for that if I ever decide to do
> something about the 13" CRT sitting in the corner of my room...
I found the spec by googling:
For 16:9:
vertical horizontal
Action safe margin : 3.5% 3.5%
Graphic safe margin: 5.0% 10.0%
Since my numbers are 16 pixels top and bottom, and 36 left
and right, I am using the correct horizontal compensation
and slightly less than the correct vertical, which should
be 24 pixels top and bottom, but I bet that only applies
to the rare (practically unheard of, even) analog 16:9 sets.
The LCD screens seem to use the Action safe overscan for
the vertical dimension... It's just all crazy.
