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'''Overscan''' is the term used to describe the situation when not all of a televised image is present on a viewing screen. It exists because television sets from the 1930s through the 1990s were highly variable in how the video image was positioned within the borders of the cathode ray tube (CRT) screen. The solution was to have the monitor show less than the full image i.e. with the edges "outside" the viewing area of the tube. In this way the image seen never showed black borders caused by either improper centering or non-linearity in the scanning circuits or variations in power supply voltage all of which could cause the image to "shrink" in size and reveal the edge of the picture. With the ending of CRT displays, this issue has largely (but not completely) disappeared. | '''Overscan''' is the term used to describe the situation when not all of a televised image is present on a viewing screen. It exists because television sets from the 1930s through the 1990s were highly variable in how the video image was positioned within the borders of the cathode ray tube (CRT) screen. The solution was to have the monitor show less than the full image i.e. with the edges "outside" the viewing area of the tube. In this way the image seen never showed black borders caused by either improper centering or non-linearity in the scanning circuits or variations in power supply voltage all of which could cause the image to "shrink" in size and reveal the edge of the picture. With the ending of CRT displays, this issue has largely (but not completely) disappeared. | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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==See also== | |||
*[[Shaders, presets, and filters]] - Image manipulation effects and how to achieve them. | |||
*[[Resolution]] - Article on the measure in which how many pixels are displayed on the screen. | |||
*[[Displays]] | |||
[[Category:Wikipedia copies]] | [[Category:Wikipedia copies]] | ||