Viewing video via firewire with aspect monitor

Hi everyone,
I finally got a monitor with an aspect 16:9 button, and I'm noticing that there are these thin horizontal lines above the picture-- wondering what they are?? two on the left, one in the center, and three on the right... Does anyone know what it means?
-patrick

That is information that is WELL outside the TV safe area and would never show up on a TV. It is in the UNDERSCAN area and it contains information like timecode, closed captioning, SAP, etc.
Shane

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