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> And why the hell are there still TVs being produced where overscan can't be turned off? Because you wanted the price of a new HDTV to be $200. Consumer elect
by Jasper_ 10y ago
> And why the hell are there still TVs being produced where overscan can't be turned off?
Because you wanted the price of a new HDTV to be $200. Consumer electronics are focused mostly on price, rarely on quality. The menus for most of these devices are incomprehensible and the new fad is IoT and Smart TVs, not usability. HDMI has a flag you can set to say "please don't overscan", but I know of absolutely 0 TVs that respect it.
Also, because standards and legacy content means that content is produced for older standards. Backwards compatibility in broadcast TV has always been important. With a simple converter box, you can view signals from the 1950s on a modern TV. So we can't just turn overscan off globally for everyone.
- pilif 10y ago> Because you wanted the price of a new HDTV to be $200. actually, performing overscan requires more functionality on the TV. That's what I think is so crazy. You have a digital signal producer (the console), a digital link (the HDMI cable) and a digital signal consumer (the TV). And then you add additional code to the TV to cut off some pixels from the digitally fed signal and then scale the resulting image. As this is significant additional functionality compared to just showing the image you're being fed, I don't buy the pricing argument at all. If you wanted it to be cheap, just don't overscan. The cost of doing overscan at all must be much higher than the cost for a toggle to turn if off.