Digital Video Essentials overscan

[Unregistered]

I had my 36 inch analog Proscan television ISF'ed calibrated about 5 years ago. Recently I watch a movie on a friend's 16 X 9 television and noticed that on a widescreen dvd, he was getting more of a picture than I was. I am not talking size but ratio.

A few days later I went back to his house with my copy of DVE, and we when through the calibration chapters (tv set to 4 X 3 for comparative purposes), during the overscan section we notice that edges on the screen were measured 5 1/2 in all directions. So we then went back to my place and pull up the overscan section and my set measured 5. Making people and objects a little fatter, than on his display. We adjusted the geometry setting to have reach 5 1/2, but this caused problem with the display not filled to the edge to the screen.

So here are my questions: Should the overscan picture be equal on all sets? On your sets, screen, monitors, where does the overscan picture measure to?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Without having the Video Essentials DVD I can 100% tell you that video definitely overscans to varying degrees based on what product you own.

Most manufacturers have a certain percentage of the image they simply drop and don't deal with and you may not be able to ever see that part of the image even by moving your horizontal/vertical adjustments.

Recently I had a room with 40" LCDs, 50" plasmas, and a video wall... Every single display showed the exact same source (DVD) differently, and there was very little that could be done to correct the image on all destinations to make them appear with the exact same cropping.

Ah well, part of the fun of the industry.