Re: Widescreen problems....is it me?

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Presumably it depends how you converted the source material.

If you took a DVD with the usual cinema aspect ratio of 2.35:1, and watch
it
on a 16:9 (widescreen) TV, you would get smallish black bars top and
bottom.
If you watched it on a 4:3  (non-widescreen) TV at that aspect ratio, the
bars would be huge (accounting for almost half the screen).

If you convert that DVD to the SVCD format the software will probably
assume
that it will be displayed on a 4:3 TV by default - and add the big black
bars.  If you know you will always be watching in widescreen, you can
probably change this so it stretches the image that it outputs - it will
then appear normal on your widescreen TV.

Mal


----- Original Message -----
From: "darren_karp2001" <darren@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Widescreen problems....is it me?


> Hi All,
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> Can someone take some time to explain to me what the difference is
> between widescreen and fullscreen in the sense that some DVD's which
> I play back via my MVP take up all (or almost all) of my 32"
Panny WS
> TV yet others have huge black bars top and bottom!
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> Is there a way of converting these movies displaying the letterbox so
> that it covers more of the screen?
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> TIA
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