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<blockquote data-quote="lkuech" data-source="post: 146314" data-attributes="member: 46526">Hi flokel.The overscan has the following &quot;mission&quot;.TV broadcast are often &quot;build&quot; for old analogue TV's. Those old TV do always overscan the picture a little bit. Because of this you don't see the edges of the image on such a television. Even modern flatscreens use an overscan for old broadcast like PAL to keep the potentially crappy edges (i.e videotext) from being shown. You can see this if you compare the picture of a TV broadcast watched on your normal television and your computer. The image on the computer may have a lot more information at the edges that you have never seen on your TV.In MediaPortal you can normally set only a global overscan which effects everything even the skin, pictures and HD videos. But overscan means nothing more than zooming into the picture a little bit. And zooming means always a decrease of picture quality. For example if you own a FullHD screen that is capable to show real 1920x1080 (Pixel by Pixel without any overscan) and you watch HDTV that comes with 1920x1080 as well. Then you will only see the full beauty of it when you do not zoom into it. The same is with the skin which look best if the skin resolution fits for screen resolution exactly.So the overscan value of ViewModeSwitcher gives you the possibility keep MediaPortal itself &quot;unzoomed&quot; but define a rule that &quot;zooms&quot; if a PAL stream (or what ever you define) is played back.Here is some more detail: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan</a>ByeLars</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lkuech, post: 146314, member: 46526"] Hi flokel. The overscan has the following "mission". TV broadcast are often "build" for old analogue TV's. Those old TV do always overscan the picture a little bit. Because of this you don't see the edges of the image on such a television. Even modern flatscreens use an overscan for old broadcast like PAL to keep the potentially crappy edges (i.e videotext) from being shown. You can see this if you compare the picture of a TV broadcast watched on your normal television and your computer. The image on the computer may have a lot more information at the edges that you have never seen on your TV. In MediaPortal you can normally set only a global overscan which effects everything even the skin, pictures and HD videos. But overscan means nothing more than zooming into the picture a little bit. And zooming means always a decrease of picture quality. For example if you own a FullHD screen that is capable to show real 1920x1080 (Pixel by Pixel without any overscan) and you watch HDTV that comes with 1920x1080 as well. Then you will only see the full beauty of it when you do not zoom into it. The same is with the skin which look best if the skin resolution fits for screen resolution exactly. So the overscan value of ViewModeSwitcher gives you the possibility keep MediaPortal itself "unzoomed" but define a rule that "zooms" if a PAL stream (or what ever you define) is played back. Here is some more detail: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan[/url] Bye Lars [/QUOTE]

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