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In Reply to: Re: viewing cable tv on a widescreen tv.... posted by John C. - Aussie on January 05, 2002 at 17:47:31:
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
Follow Ups:
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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