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REALLY bad overscan, or a method error?

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Hi all,
I have a Sony WEGA TV (precise model unknown, however it is silver) and whenever I burn a DVD myself that hasn't already been pre-encoded for VTS by someone else I get a problem.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y137/bkev/vlcsnap-172805.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y137/bkev/overscan.jpg


You'll notice that the bottom subs are almost entirely cut off, while the top is left almost okay.

Now, it is worth noting that my tv has a "16:9 enhanced" mode, where it squashes the TV's resolution down to a mock widescreen. I end up having the subtitles, but it doesn't seem quite right. So, now I ask you - really really bad overscan, or encoding error? It's worth noting that I use avi2DVD.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Its kind of hard to tell what I'm looking at. Are the screenshots both lined up exactly? Because it looks like they are not, so its difficult to tell. A side by side might be better.

My opinion is that its an overscan thing. The 16x9 thing reveals the full picture because it letterboxes it, so you see all the way down to the top and botton edges, whereas in fullscreen 4x3 mode that info gets buried in the overscan. But a side-by-side comparison might be better to judge from.
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Fixed.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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I never realized overscan could get that bad... I mean, the bottom subs are completely chopped off. Thanks for answering my question.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Thats pretty standard for overscan actually. Some monitors are faulty and take too much or too little, or shift the image left, right, up, or down, but overscan is preportionally standardized. Your set looks like its shifted down a bit, as the top has less overscan than the bottom.
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I have this problem with some fan-made DVDs, especially ADM's, with my little TV. I can't zoom back out. I need to check them on my Projector and see if they do the same thing.

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I'm not exaclty sure what you're expecting... that's the basic problem with overscan, and that's why safe-frames were invented:

http://www.flickerlab.com/flashtovideo/images/safe.gif

The "Action Safe"-frame has 5% (of the complete image width) space on each side, and marks the area that get's cropped of by average overscan.

The "Title Safe"-frame leaves 10% space on each side, and is the area to be used for text- (and subtitle-) placement. If you place it outside of that frame, it's usually too close to the edge of the TV to be read "pleasingly to the eye".

Your subtitles are clearly placed outside of the "Action Safe", so no wonder they get cropped off.
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I found my CRT had atrocious overscan with the factory default settings.

I recommend you get the Digital Video Essentials DVD and use one of the geometry/overscan patterns you can find on there. You will also need to search the web to find out how to get into the factory menu of your TV.

Make a note of the defaults first, in case you screw the adjustments up!

You should push the picture as far as it will go without distorting the geometry at the edges. In most cases you should be able to limit overscan to less than 2.5%.

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