lcd tv

sb videovideo at mac.com
Fri Jan 30 11:32:07 PST 2004


It's called Overscan, or underscan, or Title Safe, and in iMovie they call
it QT Margins (off for TV, on for computer)

You use Title Safe if your video will be shown on TV. All tv's are
different, so you use title safe as a conservative guess as to what your
viewers tv will show or cut off.

 sb

On 1/30/04 10:40 AM, "lloyds" <lloyds at vermontel.net> wrote:

> I'm off the grid and therefore would like to purchase an energy
> efficient tv as the monitor for dv editing.  This suggests a lcd tv.
> Question: will the same differences in area presented between the tv
> screen and the computer screen show up?  I forget what it's called, but
> I'm aware that the computer screen shows a larger area than will show up
> on the TV screen when the movie is played.  Will this be true if the tv
> screen is an lcd, not a crt?
> 
> BobLL



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