> 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.

> 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.