[J Hofius] “Title and action safe areas were made as a safeguard against old, innaccurate monitors. Technology advances, monitors become more accurate. One result is the network identifying bugs in the lower right of most broadcast shows. A second example is animated pop-ups pushing their way onto the screen during one show to advertise another show.
Can these shifts in what is acceptable for broadcast (Especially in Hi-Def) open up the edge of the canvas for design? Could this mean we’ll no longer need to design for the center of the screen?”
Who told you this little fairytale? Even LCD’s have non-usable areas of up to 5% (the cheaper the set, the larger the margin), the average is something like 1-3%. Granted, it’s much better than old tubes, but it’s still with us and it will be so for quite a while. Sorry, any announcements about the death of safe areas are untrue and premature. They may become smaller, but they won’t disappear.
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