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From: jackm@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Overscan overrated?
Message-ID: <2602@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 8 Aug 88 14:34:33 GMT
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Reply-To: jackm@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison)
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In article <3118@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
>Okay, I'll bite.  Just why do so many Amiga people think that overscan is
>such a big deal for desktop video?  
>
>Okay so you what NTSC.  Fine a lot of TV's out there won't even show the 
>fancy overscan stuff (that is why it is called overscan).  Also note, by

Simple: FCC *requires* overscan for "legal" NTSC for broadcast. 
It's expensive to zoom/stretch non-overscan video to legal size.

>So it seems the cheap solution is record frames on to film.  

Quite true, and then overscan is unnecessary.
But I thought you were talking about desktop video, not computer animation!

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