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In Reply to: viewing cable tv on a widescreen tv.... posted by Susan on January 05, 2002 at 14:41:00:
"One would want a 16:9 widescreen if DVD watching is first priority
One would want a 4:3 tv if regular tv watching is priority....
& when one watches cable tv broadcasts on a widescreen *it is not full screen*(i.e. it will have either bars or something
(and is this for everything that is broadcast?)"Hi Susan
You are generally correct but what you end up seeing out of the DVD player could depend on how it is set up. If the screen is not very large you might prefer to see DVDs in 4:3 format and this is an option on most DVD players, something I was slow to realise myself until I studied the instruction booklet (desperate last measure!!! but, in defence, most are poorly written [by nerds?] and make heavy going of what should be easy to follow).
We have a projection TV and I usually blow up 4:3 so it takes up the whole 16:9 screen. However this can reduce resolution on poorer material and can be tricky with subtitles so we have a variety of formats to choose from. My wife gets a bit irritated by scalped craniums so we sometimes compromise with a screen which is mid way between 4:3 & 16:9.
John
Peace at AA
Follow Ups:
If the screen is not very large you might prefer to see DVDs in 4:3 format and this is an option on most DVD players...John,
You're referring to scaling I believe (some call it zoom which is probably just as accurate) and I don't think it's on that many DVD players. My Panasonic has it, but not my Sony. I do normally do the same thing as you, if it's a 4:3, I zoom to fill the sides and lose the top and bottom (some, not much). One movie in particular is Eyes Wide Shut.
Even though my Sony doesn't scale/zoom, my Pioneer RPTV can, though the quality was in fact quite a bit compromised compared to doing the same thing on the Panasonic player.
IME.
-- Greg
please? I was questioning that statement about 4:3 too, because of my recent experience, but I'm a total DVDP newbie. I have "regular" TV's (4:3) and I didn't find a DVDP that would scale everything to that as an obvious setup option. It was tough to tell in stores, the DVDP's are all hooked up to much newer TV's than mine, the manuals are typically not very clear, the salespeople not that knowledgable, etc. So I have been viewing anamorphic (?) etc. movies using the DVDP's "widescreen" mode - not the same as 4:3 scaling, but fills much more of the screen, clearer than the zoom, don't miss a lot... Maybe down under they get different features on DVDP's, but I'm really wondering how common the 4:3 scaling might be in NA, because I sure would like to have that feature, and I can still return my DVDP for one that has it if it really is common here. Thanks.
You can't take a movie that is widescreen and make it fit a 4:3 without truncating the sides or making look goofy. So, what I will do if I have a 4:3 movie and want to fill my widescreen, I "zoom" (or scale) the picture proportionally so it fits the sides and I lose top and bottom image. If you have a 4:3 TV, this isn't an option...you'll just have to get used to widescreen (like I did the first 2 years I had DVD) or start shopping. I'd rather watch a movie in its original format than P&S (on 4:3). But that's just me.-- Greg
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