OT: TV Overscan--A Simple Way to Measure

wwaag wrote on 4/27/2015, 8:56 PM
If anyone is interested, here's an easy way to measure your TV's amount of overscan. I did this some years ago when I was learning Proshow Producer. The range is from 85% to 100% and if you load the file into Vegas, the values agree with your safe area settings. Here's a screenshot.



Simply download the file and "play" it on your TV. Here's the Dropbox link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ykxf37o23ofdlrk/Safe%20Zone.mp4?dl=0

Just thought I'd share.

wwaag

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