For those who really care dept: In previous threads concerning anamorphic widescreen the term overscan came up. That TVs cut off a sliver of picture on the top and bottom. Just got a computer with dvd drives. Stuck in a few dvdrs I recorded from vhs tapes. Watching with Media Player you can see the small sliver at the bottom that the tv cuts off. The tracking is off within the sliver, very noticable. In dvd player with regular tv it is cut off. Not there when watching the tape on a tv either. Like I said, for those who really care.

Standard CRT based TV's will always overscan the displayed video. Not only at the top and bottom of the screen but at the sides as well. This is done within the TV electronics to make sure the image fills the entire screen and does not leave any black areas.
This is quite the opposite to a computer image displayed on a computer CRT monitor in which the image is underscanned. And because of this there are black areas between the image and the screens edges.

TV companies know all about the TV's overscanning and make sure that they do not put any important data in this area.. eg titles etc.

Non CRT Digital TV's, Plasma and LCD, should not overscan the image as their electronics scale and map the enitre image to completely fill the screen. So you should not notice any clipping of the image on these devices unless the screens electronics are doing trick processing converting 4:3 to 16:9 or vice versa.

Alien