lcd tv

[sb]

Same process. It has to do with the video signal, not what the monitor is
made up of. It's masking the portion of the video signal that contains
chroma, sync and the front porch and back porch of the signal. NTSC video is
comprised of 525 lines, but you only see 485 on a tv set.

 sb


On 1/30/04 1:54 PM, "lloyds" <lloyds at vermontel.net> wrote:

> Thanks.  Do you happen to know whether there is a significant difference
> between the
> process that produces the underscan with a CRT tv and the process that might
> (or might
> not) produce an underscan with a lcd tv?
> 
> BobLL
> 
> sb wrote:
> 
>> 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