[mythtv-users] OverScan / Vertical alignment

[Justin Hornsby]

Possibly a good idea for future themes & the new GUI would be to obey the 10% 'safe area' rule.  This will virtually guarantee that all widgets or OSD content are always displayed onscreen (though some TVs may overscan even more than 10% !).

Of course there's still the slightly thorny issue of setting up the screen size limits for the GUI in the first place, but I have a plan to work on that in the near future.. something along the lines of the 'screen calibration' menu in XBMC.  In that, you move two triangles to the extremes of the screen (i.e. top left & bottom right) to ensure all the action happens where you can see it during normal operation.  But if anyone wants to steal my thunder, feel free ;-)   

There's also possibly a need for a setup screen to enable people to properly set their TV's brightness/contrast controls (or TV output).. This would include signals like PLUGE (for correct brightness & contrast) & colour bars (for correct colour temperature/saturation).  This would be very simple to add into a setup menu, although calling external screen setup programs (e.g. nvidia-settings) might give rise to other issues (such as which program to call since not everybody uses the same graphics hardware).

Justin.
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