Overscan

Every television built before about 2005 threw part of the picture away. The tube scanned wider than the mask, and the outer few percent of every frame fell off the front of the glass, unseen. That margin had a name. It was called overscan.



This channel is about the screens that are gone, and the companies that went with them. The last CRT ever built. The wire across your Trinitron that was never a fault. The flat panel that cost twenty thousand dollars in 1997. Sony, RCA, Zenith, Pioneer, DuMont: how they won, and what winning cost them.



No tier lists, no restoration timelapses, no nostalgia for its own sake. Dates, prices, and the decisions the engineers actually made.



New film every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.