Thanks for sharing your findings. Regardless of your findings many shows require 4x3 safe titles in HD shows. Direct TV letterboxes some network shows and others it center crops to SD boxes. Dennis posted that NBC news Center Cuts but the entertainment division letterboxes. So I've heard 5% cutoff is relatively standard and I've seen Panny consumer plasmas that have a crop and a full setting. Just another pain in the arse. If you thinks 80% safe title would look wrong you aren't watching much Network PrimeTime that has all titles 4x3 safe. ;-)
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
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> So, my results - on three different size of screens - 60", 50" and 48" LCDs from higher end Sony consumer sets and lower end Seiki set is that all of them are cropped VERY slightly. None show the full 100% raster but ALL show a good deal of the 95%.
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> 93% on ALL of the sets was easily viewable.
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> Basically, I made a 1920x1080 file in Photoshop. Then made four different colored boxes. 100% of raster was colored red, 95% of raster was blue, 93% of raster was green, 90% was yellow and 80% was cyan.
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> As I mentioned, I could see a red border (100% to 95%) on all of the sets, fed as HDMI straight from a video card.
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> Using anything tighter than 90% on these screens would look silly I think. Using 80% as title safe on HD would seem like the designer had screwed up. 90% looks about right for title safe on all of them. I would be completely comfortable with 93% for safe title. I'm shocked at myself for never trying to test this before. I have always used 80% as safe title. Indeed, the Photoshop template for HD is 80% safe title. My eyes have been opened.
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> This is JUST a test with the four HD consumer sets that I have in my office. All were bought last December. I'd love to see whether others have the same results. Maybe burn a test to bluray and play it at home.
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> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
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