"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Other thing is control room monitors (Grade 1) are designed for close
viewing, so generally in the smaller sizes. Nor have I ever seen a
widescreen CRT with decent geometry and registration. Control room CRTs
even for widescreen were still 4:3, but underscanned, making the small
size even more of an issue.

Our control room used 25 to 30 inch monitors.

4:3. So as I said a small size when showing 16:9. If indeed you ever saw
16:9 pictures in the studio.

Underscan was
switchable. A mask was used with lines to show the hot area for cheap,
overscanned TV sets.

You think all 'cheap overscanned TV sets' had the same 'hot' area?


Sigh. Did your mother have any kids without brain damage? Quit
trying to put words in my mouth, you aren't smart enough to even try.
Proper camera work made sure that the active portion of any image was
properly framed. Proper framing was for near worst case TVs. No one
gave a **** if your $139 jpanese TV cut off 25% all the way around the
image.


And why would the engineer in charge of the actual pictures care about
home overscan? That would be left to the production side.

Tell us, how many US TV stations did you work at
as an engineer? How many state of the art NTSC studios have you built?
How many years of maintaining a commercial US TV station?

I'm beginning to wonder how well you've kept up with things. Not much by
the sound of it.

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