Why Overscan is Evil
I posted an article that highlights one of my biggest HDTV pet peeves: video overscan. I titled the article “A Good HDTV Shows You Everything!” and it includes some real-world examples (pictures) that should give the reader an a good idea of what to look for in a new HDTV in order to avoid this detail destroying condition.
wow dude Those pictures are worth a thousand words. My only “HD” is a 720 projector.
Amen, HD isn’t wasting a SINGLE pixel, why the hell are the crappy manufacturers half assing it?
What it WILL do is stifle innovation. More people should be VOCAL!
The main reason for the overscan is the legacy standard def broadcasts often have some garbage across the top row or two. Overscanning cuts this off so the average consumer doesn’t complain about this. (I believe it’s close captioning or some other sync data.)
But any good HD signal should have content out to the very last row of pixels and overscan is definately evil!