Re: [Avid-L2] PBS Safe Action/Safe Title Specs?

Hi Steve,


I know when I bought my own TV (Sony) 2 years ago and did research on
consumer TVs, they all cropped 10% by default, I had to manually set my TV
to "Actual Pixel" (other brands call it "Pixel for Pixel" or whatever) to
make it display the actual resolution of the signal.

Whether this has changed within the last 2 years I don't know, I must admit
-- I'll do some research on this tonight.


Bye,
Christian


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>wrote:

> **
>
>
> Christian -
>
> I agree that this was certainly the wisdom of 20 or even 10 years ago. I
> question whether this is valid today. What specific evidence do you have
> that a TV rolling off an assembly line today does this? I am not asking
> this rhetorically as a way to say you are wrong. I am asking this question
> as a real question. Do you know or have you heard that a modern TV still
> does 90% cutoff? It would be interesting to test. Maybe I'll do it
> tomorrow. I have three brand new top quality big screen consumer LCD TVs.
> Maybe I'll create a PS document with successive 10% increments of "borders"
> and then send that image through HDMI from my computer to each screen and
> see how much is actually cut from each one.
>
> I agree that many "smart" web repurposers run their video through a filter
> that does the automatic 10% crop to match the assumed 90% safe action from
> TV.
>
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>
> On May 19, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Christian Foerster wrote:
>
> > Many TVs crop off 10% of the image when set to factory settings, so
> (sadly)
> > 90% action safe is as valid as ever.
> >
> > Big distributors of Web content also crop off a certain amount of the
> > TV-originated image when encoding it for the web.
>
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>
>



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