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Re: Aspect ratio horrors

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In Reply to: Aspect ratio horrors posted by Steve Schell on September 4, 2005 at 08:38:59:

Hi there
I'm curious: why send a 4:3 picture from the DVD player to the 16:9 screen? Why not setup the DVD player to send a 16:9 picture, and be done with it?
Regards -- Gerard

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Re: Aspect ratio horrors - Steve Schell 08:16:43 09/05/05 (0)
Hi Gerard,
I realized after my post that I was wrong about the image from the DVD player being 4:3. Many or most DVDs are "letterbox" format and a larger ratio than 4:3. The effect we noticed in every case, though, with several DVDs, was horizontal stretching of the image when displayed on the 16:9 screen.
Not sure if we tried setting the DVD player to send 16:9, but thought we'd tried everything. Thanks for the suggestion. We'll have another go at it in a day or two and I'll report back.

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