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Re: DisplayMate

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Post by rahimnathwani »

lelanthran wrote: post #9
InsideOutSanta wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I confused, or are these a bunch of JPGs on a CD? There's no hardware, right?

TLDR: Not JPGs, BMPs more likely. I recall when the first LCD TVs came out and I wanted to get a cheap 1080 one. The problem was that almost every TV said 1080 even if it was just 720 upscaled. I put a uniform image in BMP on a memory stick - every column being R, then G, then B repeated. As the image was exactly 1080, viewing it in full-screen on a 1080 screen gave a sort of uniform grey color. On an upscaled monito…

This would also help to detect overscan. I remember when I was shopping for my first 1080p TV, many (most?) had overscan and no way to turn it off.

Re: DisplayMate

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Post by Sesse__ »

lelanthran wrote: post #9
InsideOutSanta wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I confused, or are these a bunch of JPGs on a CD? There's no hardware, right?

TLDR: Not JPGs, BMPs more likely. I recall when the first LCD TVs came out and I wanted to get a cheap 1080 one. The problem was that almost every TV said 1080 even if it was just 720 upscaled. I put a uniform image in BMP on a memory stick - every column being R, then G, then B repeated. As the image was exactly 1080, viewing it in full-screen on a 1080 screen gave a sort of uniform grey color. On an upscaled monito…

Why do you think it wouldn't work for a JPEG? I just made one like that, and it worked just fine.

Re: DisplayMate

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Post by jonathanlydall »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #17
lelanthran wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TLDR: Not JPGs, BMPs more likely. I recall when the first LCD TVs came out and I wanted to get a cheap 1080 one. The problem was that almost every TV said 1080 even if it was just 720 upscaled. I put a uniform image in BMP on a memory stick - every column being R, then G, then B repeated. As the image was exactly 1080, viewing it in full-screen on a 1080 screen gave a sort of uniform grey color. On an upscaled monito…

This would also help to detect overscan. I remember when I was shopping for my first 1080p TV, many (most?) had overscan and no way to turn it off.

Overscan is where it cuts off the edges of the image right?

I’m sure an LLM could offer an explanation, but I genuinely have never understood why overscan is even a thing on HDMI ports.

Most times I plug my AppleTV or laptop into a TV using HDMI by default it’s cutting off the edge of the image. When is it ever a good thing to cut off the edges of the incoming digital image and why does this seem to be the default behaviour on most TVs?

Edit: I asked an LLM and it says some content includes junk on the edge of images because it was never meant to be visible, so TVs enable it by default to cut down complaints/support requests. Apparently, even though HDMI supports a way to signal to TVs to disable overscan, many TVs ignore it.

I’m in my 40’s and have yet to personally encounter content where overscan should be used.

Maybe there were particularly crappy and prevalent analogue to digital converters in the early days of HDMI, but TV manufactures just never stopped doing it even though it’s almost never an issue any more. So we probably have a situation now where probably everyone has either manually changed their TV from its default or more likely are seeing an over scanned and thus non-pixel aligned image.

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