[MacDV] Re: Tv safe area in iDVD

[Gerhard Kuhn]

The amount of over-scan also varies with voltage irregularities so part 
of the blame lies with your local utilities reliability and the 
distance your TV is from the nearest transformer.  You live down a long 
country lane your set will act quite different from someone living in a 
city.


Gerhard


On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 12:22  AM, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 05:06 PM, Hacorb at aol.com wrote:
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>> So there is no way to compensate for this overscanning? I am assuming 
>> the answer is "no".
>
> Practically speaking, no. You could perhaps compensate for it on a 
> specific TV, if you knew how much the overscan was. But it might be 
> cropped, or show a black border on another TV. The crop amount is just 
> somewhere in the TV safe area, but since it varies from one TV to 
> another, you're pretty much hosed unless you don't mind having a black 
> border around your image (I have done that before). Does NTSC suck, or 
> what?
>
> SR
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