Yeah, this happens to me when I watch TV on my TV card.  For a benchmark,
I'd watch Headline News (CNN Affiliate), and the ticker at the bottom was
made to be displayed on a TV.  But when the station is received on my
card, you can see more of the picture, and where the formatting of the
ticker ends, and you can see it's an overlay in the signal.

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Philip Pesek wrote:

> This is not a PAL-specific issue, its the same way on NTSC, in fact I cannot
> see either the top or the bottom, the reason for this is that TV
> manufacturers intentionally cover a portion in order to insure that TV
> programs take up the whole screen--otherwise people would complain that the
> whole 21' (or whatever) doesn't actually work.  Somebody just has to tweak
> the software to deal with this at some point...
> 
> --
> -Phil
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Natasha Portillo" <iosglpgc@teleline.es>
> To: <port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 8:59 PM
> Subject: NetBSD on PAL TV
> 
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a 21" PAL TV...
> > When I run NetBSD/Dreamcast I can't see the bottom
> > of the screen...
> >
> > How can I solve this little problem?
> >
> > Regards
> > Natasha Portillo
> >
> >
>