26th March 2003, 1:26 AM
Even then, couldn't the hardware add those borders to the image data by default? Oh well, that's what Europe gets for making it's own (inferior) TV format! (Well, actually newer versions of PAL beat ours, but then again that was right around the time we got ourselves HDTV).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)