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On Oct 13, 5:00 pm, "Paul D Smith" wrote:
Tried this last night and very nice it was too - but I noticed that the
small BBC logon was slightly off-screen so all I saw was "BC". Anyone
else
seen this with iPlayer? Seems odd since presumably the picture is the
"perfect size" of a digital TV (or perhaps it's not!).

BTW HDMI connection to the TV.

Your TV must apply more overscan than the BBC expects.

It's fully visible on Samsung TVs using their built-in iPlayer
implementation.

Why on earth would a digital TV apply overscan?

I'll check tonight to see if it's something I can remove.

Paul DS.

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Paul D Smith wrote:

Why on earth would a digital TV apply overscan?

Because a surprising number of transmitted programs have weird
black-and-white bits top and bottom.

Personally I'd much rather live with them, and enjoy a 1:1 pixel
mapping, than make the TV scale the picture so it's non-native to the
screen.

--
SteveT

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Paul D Smith wrote:

Why on earth would a digital TV apply overscan?
I'll check tonight to see if it's something I can remove.

Look for an "Exact Scan" or similar mode under the aspect ratio
selection. As much as I like the idea of zero overscan and therefore no
rcaling, I generally apply a 1 or 2% zoom to my HTPC as I find junk
around the edges rather distracting.

The junk takes a few forms, visible timecodes at the top, pixels without
chroma at the sides, soft rather than crisp edges, or borders where a
vision mixer doesn't fully overlay one source with another one, leaving
one or two pixels of green or blue or unrelated video peeping out at the
edges.

The occasional boom mic in shot or lens vignetting is a bonus :-)

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Paul D Smith wrote:

Why on earth would a digital TV apply overscan?
I'll check tonight to see if it's something I can remove.

Look for an "Exact Scan" or similar mode under the aspect ratio selection.
As much as I like the idea of zero overscan and therefore no rcaling, I
generally apply a 1 or 2% zoom to my HTPC as I find junk around the edges
rather distracting.

The junk takes a few forms, visible timecodes at the top, pixels without
chroma at the sides, soft rather than crisp edges, or borders where a
vision mixer doesn't fully overlay one source with another one, leaving
one or two pixels of green or blue or unrelated video peeping out at the
edges.

The occasional boom mic in shot or lens vignetting is a bonus :-)

Thanks - I found the "overscan on/off" last night and was surprised to find,
as Steve had hinted, that without overscan, the edges of the picture were a
"slightly ripply, not using all the pixels".

I wonder if, once analogue is switched off, whether we will slowly move
forward to zero overscan, perhaps with a "trail period" for possible
complaints like we had when (if memory serves) a few more lines were added
to the old Ceefax system.

So, I know where the setting is now - pity it's buried in the depths of the
menu settings :-(.

Paul DS,