Paul,
Something I wanted to ask you about Samsung's Fit to Screen feature...
I understand this is Samsung-speak for overscan, and I always leave it on when watching films on my Panasonic UHD disc player (so there's no overscan); for cable TV viewing via our cable box, we leave Fit to Screen on Auto (though I don't really know what that does) and also use Standard picture mode (while using Movie for the Blu-ray player input).
When viewing certain old DVDs, I get some nasty scan lines around the edges of the screen due to the lack of overscan (because these discs were obviously meant to be played on older CRT-type sets with overscan enabled), and I have even rented a few modern DVDs (mainly from "bootleg" studios like Vertical Entertainment) that exhibit a weird green line that runs around the border of the image, obviously because the widescreen film wasn't transferred right (or the disc wasn't authored correctly), and the Fit to Screen is showing the outer edges of these...
What would you do in these situations? Should I just leave Fit to Screen OFF for my SDR content playback (regular Blu-rays and DVDs) being that I'm running into so many titles that are showing stuff that should be hidden by overscan?
I also see, on some Sony Superbit DVDs like Black Hawk Down, weird "wobbling" on the left and right sides of the letterboxed image, obviously being another artifact because the overscan isn't engaged.
Should I just live with these and keep Fit to Screen on, or would you recommend -- because I AM experiencing issues even with NEW DVD releases -- turning it off and dealing with the slightly zoomed-in image that overscan produces? I know that overscan will also possibly add some scaling artifacts, making DVD content look even noisier, and that is something I totally want to avoid because my Panasonic Blu-ray player (a UB9000) already sucks at DVD scaling to 4K, but what do you think?