overscan

Overscan: The full image area to the electronic edge of the signal.

Different video and broadcast television systems require differing amounts of overscan.

Making the display wider risked cutting off characters due to overscan.

The visible enhancement is significant due to the restrictive requirements of overscan.

In later revisions, the TV or monitor overscan could be adjusted.

"According to the overscan of her home unit, he used the name Byron in correspondence with her.

The result, in most cases, is something called overscan, where the full computer screen image doesn't fit on the TV screen.

Denise supports very wide overscan; there is no need for a border around the graphics as other computers suffered from.

Analog TV overscan can also be used for datacasting.

The red border in the illustration represents the overscan, the area of the active picture outside the action-safe area.

HDTVs also have overscan problems, but usually only the very edge of the computer image gets cropped.

Also supported some TV-specific features for handling overscan.

This is to compensate for the overscan on many 4:3 TVs, which cuts off part of all four sides of the image.

Critics often argue that windowboxing of this ratio is unnecessary due to the image loss caused by overscan being negligible.

Some other computers such as the Commodore Amiga allowed the video signal timing to be changed to produce overscan.

The beam was roughly circular and aimed at a triangular target, making it difficult to capture the entire beam without some overscan.

It also turns out that the tape's overscan does not include time code, which hints that the tape was not made using electronic equipment.

It does this by occupying some unused screen space, called the overscan area, about one-quarter to one-half inch along each edge of the screen.

Geer continued to work on the overscan problems throughout the late 1940s and into the 1950s, filing additional patents on various corrections to improve the system.

Two-switch scanning enables a range of scanning options including row and column, and overscan.

"Program it for an infrared overscan fifty kilometres either side of its orbital track, see if it can locate the downed BK133.

This overscan may or may not bother the viewer, but it often cuts-off the channel banner or other on-screen displays.

The equivalent service on Digital television does not employ overscan and instead often uses MHEG.

However many colors you had, overscan or not, interlace or not, if you were in the low-res mode, the processor was full speed.

Overscan bled the colors into neighboring pixels and led to soft colors and poor color registration and contrast.