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Old 06-19-2006, 08:08 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by rbinck
You said it: Overscan.
Does overscan mean that a 1920x1080 broadcast being viewed on a 1920x1080 display will have just a large portion say 1853x1027 pixels scaled to the 1920x1080 display pixels?
- If that be the case - why does the native resolution matter except that more is better - any format would be scaled by some odd factor because of overscan - no matter what the actual pixel counts are
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