Use your remote to go into the DVD player menu and switch to "letterbox".
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| M.B. Senior Member 1679 Posts 2/01 |  Posted - Jul 15 2005 : 11:36PMA friend of mine sent me a dvd he made of a boxing fight. The fight was aired in HD. He recorded it and put it on a dvd for me, he said it's in 16 X 9 aspect ratio. I'm watching on a regular pan & scan tv. There are no black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, I thought if an image is in 16 X 9 and I'm watching on a regular tv, that there should be black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. When watching the fight, the picture fills in the whole screen, but the image looks like it's stretched out vertically (from top to bottom). The people look skinny and their faces look long. My question is: If I were to pop this dvd into a dvd player and watch it on a widescreen tv, would I be able to stretch the screen out horizontally (left to right) and would the image then look normal? and would the entire widescreen be filled? If you've ever see the first Die Hard movie aried on tv, they compressed the image (pushed it in from the left and right sides) to fit it on a pan & scan tv screen resulting in the people in the movie looking stretched out from top to bottom (skinny) and just plain freaky with long faces. This is what the fight looks like when i'm watching it. Any insight would be appreciated. Edited by - M.B. on Jul 16 2005 [Link] |
| TonyC Comstock Films 2523 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Jul 15 2005 : 11:40PM Use your remote to go into the DVD player menu and switch to "letterbox". -TC [Link] |
| M.B. Senior Member 1679 Posts 2/01 | Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 12:06AM My Sony player has three tv screen options to choose from: 4:3 Letterbox I tried setting it to all three and nothing changes My Sony player automatically detects what aspect ratio is being presented so you don't have to choose it manually. If it's 2.35:1 , 1.85:1 , or 4:3 full screen, the player automatically presents the movie that way. You don't have to manually choose the aspect ratio. [Link] |
Bill  All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 12:43AM However, the process that he isn't able to replicate is to set the flags on the DVD that tell the player what he's done. As far as your DVD player is concerned, you have a regular 4:3 DVD in the player. It has no idea that your friend squeezed a 16:9 picture onto the disc. In this case, the DVD player is just a glorified VCR. If you play that same DVD back on a widescreen TV and put the TV into the proper stretch mode it will look great. But it will never look good on a 4:3 TV. Edited by - Bill on 7/16/2005 12:47:49 AM [Link] |
| M.B. Senior Member 1679 Posts 2/01 | Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 8:11AM I need to get out of the dark ages and get a widesceen tv. I've been putting it off for so long, waiting until my cable company HD box is a reasonable rate/price. But it looks like widescreen technology is becoming the norm so I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy one soon. [Link] |
| greatskilz Member 161 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 10:50PM This is a pretty old thread, but it seems relevant to a problem I have with a few DVDs filmed in HD, from Digital Sin & Zero Tol. Picture stretched vertically, etc., will only look good on a widescreen. Not to seem stupid, but are there not converters or certain DVD players that can flatten the picture back out for a regular, old fashioned 4:3 like my Sony Wega? I can always buy more DVD players, but I'd hate to get another TV. Just asking... couldn't really find an online FAQ. Now, if there was such a machine that was also PAL/NTSC compatible and region free, I'd REALLY jump at it... but, one thing at a time. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 6 2007 : 10:17AM If you change that, the DVD player will "build" the black bars on top & bottom before sending the picture to the TV. [Link] |
| greatskilz Member 161 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jan 6 2007 : 8:44PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 7 2007 : 12:08AM [Link] |
| K Smitten Kitten Cloud 9 530 Posts 2/06 | Posted - Jan 7 2007 : 5:59AM My Sony, which I think pre-dates their Wega brand, has a button for it. [Link] |
| Mike Quasar Zero Tolerance Reluctant pornographer 1765 Posts 7/01 | Posted - Jan 8 2007 : 1:26AM Edited by - mike quasar on 1/8/2007 1:28:28 AM [Link] |
| greatskilz Member 161 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jan 9 2007 : 12:09AM I wonder if my other problem title, Digital Sin's wonderfully titled "Fuck my Ass 'n' Make me Cum #5" has been similarly repaired. Edited by - greatskilz on 1/9/2007 12:22:36 AM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 6:17PM [Link] |
| Mike Quasar Zero Tolerance Reluctant pornographer 1765 Posts 7/01 | Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 8:36PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 9:09PM If so, how do they go about that process? Also, was there any modification to the cover of the DVD so that people can be sure that they are purchasing a corrected version of the disc? Edited by - Bill on 1/16/2007 9:12:52 PM [Link] |
| Mike Quasar Zero Tolerance Reluctant pornographer 1765 Posts 7/01 | Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 9:41PM [Link] |
| greatskilz Member 161 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 11:21PM [Link] |
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