Re: Defining safe areas for media devices and set top boxes

On Friday, December 3, 2010, 9:55:43 AM, Robert wrote:

ROC> Either I'm particularly slow tonight or your message is unclear.
ROC> Why can't you simply set the browser viewport to the "safe area" of the TV screen?

The safe area on TV is not exactly like a browser viewport, and not exactly like page margins.

In some ways its more like the bleed area on printed material. There can be stuff outside the safe area (solid colours, images, textures) and depending on how its cropped for final display some or all of that area may be visible. 

The 'action safe area' is outside the 'title safe area' and can have images and video, and will be visible, but must not contain text.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area

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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
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Received on Friday, 3 December 2010 10:11:27 UTC