overscan?

Hi there,

I have a panny ae-900 and there is an option to turn overscan on or off.

i dont know much about overscan, except that it tends to zoom the picture slightly, or something like that.

My question is, "when would i want to have the overscan turned on?"

Can anyone help?

thanks
krlock2

[paul_mowbray]

Originally Posted by krlock2

"when would i want to have the overscan turned on?"

When watching TV or a badly authored DVD which has noise or other crap around the edges or the image doesn't quite go to the edge so you get a small black border. I find most TV stuff to be fine these days(using Sky) and have overscan turned off 99% of the time.

[throwit]

i've read that overscan is partly responsible for overfuzziness too, so best to leave it alone unless you have "crap around the edges or the image doesn't quite go to the edge so you get a small black border" as paul_mowbray rightly points out

my sp5000 used to look better with overscan on, but not so for the 900 apparently

thanks for the answers guys

[stevos]

on my old infocus 4800 it removed the problem of being able to see what i assumed was the encoded subtitles at one edge of the screen.