The capability to increase the size of the image to the edge of the monitor bezel. A feature that keeps two or more video streams in synchronization, often combined with a graphic overlay capability. Any oddity in a video signal. The method of presenting a video display a half picture at a time, showing only every other line at a time. PAL and NTSC video standards for television employs an interlaced signal.
Computer monitors use typically noninterlaced video.
Standards-setting body which has set the TV standards for North America. When converting computer screen to overscan, graphics and text at the edges of the image may be lost. Vertical overscan means that a few lines will go off the visible edges of the TV screen resulting in either the top or bottom of the image being cut off. Horizonal overscan means that some parts of the picture on left and right sides may be cut off because they don't fit to visible TV screen. The video format standard used in Europe.