[mythtv-users] overscan problems with nvidia 8400 GS

[Brian Wood]

On Saturday 18 July 2009 15:19:44 Tortise wrote:
> >   That said, overscan only seems to be a problem for UIs and not for
> > content.
>
> That is true to the extent that the problem is less evident, however that
> does not mean it not still occurring, it is, it is just less noticeable. 
> If anyone is in doubt about this run one of the reference test clips which
> demonstrate it still occurs.  Most video content is visually centric whilst
> desktop is more whole screen in nature, which makes for a bigger and more
> evident problem!

Also, important stuff tends to happen at the edges of a desktop (menu bars 
etc.) while directors try hard to not have anything important happening at 
the edges of programming, restricting that to the SMPTE-defined "safe action" 
area of the screen.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org