I'm a Home Theater Rep at a big box store. One of the Toshiba reps came by one day and mentioned the 'native mode' that Toshiba TVs have available to them. The overscan is simply a throwback (on other tvs) to how images were displayed on crt televisions, where as native mode takes the entire image and displays it as is, without the overscan. I did ask why it wasn't a standard feature on lcd tvs then, but he couldn't answer that.
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I'm a Home Theater Rep at a big box store. One of the Toshiba reps came by one day and mentioned the 'native mode' that Toshiba TVs have available to them. The overscan is simply a throwback (on other tvs) to how images were displayed on crt televisions, where as native mode takes the entire image and displays it as is, without the overscan. I did ask why it wasn't a standard feature on lcd tvs then, but he couldn't answer that.