DVD And New Plasma Display Problem

I have a new 16:9 flat panel plasma EDTV and am having a display problem
with some DVD's. DVD's that are "letter boxed" (not anamorphic or "enhanced
for wide screen TV's") appear stretched and too wide (Titanic DVD is one of
them). My DVD player is set properly for the 16:9 display. There are zoom
modes available on the DVD and the plasma monitor but they don't really go
to the correct aspect ratio and they seem to lower the resolution and cut
off parts of the picture. Am I missing some key setup information here or
is this just the way it is?

Thanks for any help, Kim

Piper

Which aspect ratio is your Titanic DVD?

"Piper" <> wrote in message
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> I have a new 16:9 flat panel plasma EDTV and am having a display problem
> with some DVD's. DVD's that are "letter boxed" (not anamorphic or
"enhanced
> for wide screen TV's") appear stretched and too wide (Titanic DVD is one
of
> them). My DVD player is set properly for the 16:9 display. There are
zoom
> modes available on the DVD and the plasma monitor but they don't really go
> to the correct aspect ratio and they seem to lower the resolution and cut
> off parts of the picture. Am I missing some key setup information here or
> is this just the way it is?
>
> Thanks for any help, Kim
>
>

luminos

Set the TV display to letterbox, not 16x9, when watching non-anamorphic
DVDs.

Aphelion

Aphelion

Well, there is no reference to the actual aspect ratio other than "wide
screen version". I suspect it is 2.35:1.

Kim

"luminos" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Which aspect ratio is your Titanic DVD?
>
> "Piper" <> wrote in message
> news:aikhc.7291$...
> > I have a new 16:9 flat panel plasma EDTV and am having a display problem
> > with some DVD's. DVD's that are "letter boxed" (not anamorphic or
> "enhanced
> > for wide screen TV's") appear stretched and too wide (Titanic DVD is one
> of
> > them). My DVD player is set properly for the 16:9 display. There are
> zoom
> > modes available on the DVD and the plasma monitor but they don't really
go
> > to the correct aspect ratio and they seem to lower the resolution and
cut
> > off parts of the picture. Am I missing some key setup information here
or
> > is this just the way it is?
> >
> > Thanks for any help, Kim
> >
> >
>
>

Piper

Thanks, but there is no such setting on the TV. My TV is an AKAI pdp4294.

Kim

"Aphelion" <> wrote in message
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> Set the TV display to letterbox, not 16x9, when watching non-anamorphic
> DVDs.
>
> Aphelion
>
>

Piper

"Piper" <> wrote in message
news:aikhc.7291$...
> I have a new 16:9 flat panel plasma EDTV and am having a display problem
> with some DVD's. DVD's that are "letter boxed" (not anamorphic or
"enhanced
> for wide screen TV's") appear stretched and too wide (Titanic DVD is one
of
> them). My DVD player is set properly for the 16:9 display. There are
zoom
> modes available on the DVD and the plasma monitor but they don't really go
> to the correct aspect ratio and they seem to lower the resolution and cut
> off parts of the picture. Am I missing some key setup information here or
> is this just the way it is?
>
> Thanks for any help, Kim
>

The "Zoom" mode on your TV should work without cutting off any parts of the
picture. Are there different versions of zoom? A (CRT) Panasonic I used to
have had several different "Zoom" settings. There should certainly be one
for this. If not, just set the TV to 4:3 and try to ignore the borders all
the way around...

Incidentally, I'm sure you know this, but just in case -- the image won't
fill the screen even when zoomed properly if the aspect ratio on the DVD is
2.35:1

Si

Si

Play around with the Screen Mode settings on your AKAI: Normal, Wide,
Panorama, zoom1, zoom2, Stretch... one of these will be correct. I have a
Sony and I have to set it on zoom for non-anamorphic letterbox films like
your Titanic


"Piper" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks, but there is no such setting on the TV. My TV is an AKAI pdp4294.
>
> Kim
>
> "Aphelion" <> wrote in message
> news:Vomhc.69189$...
> > Set the TV display to letterbox, not 16x9, when watching non-anamorphic
> > DVDs.
> >
> > Aphelion
> >
> >
>
>


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Piper, says...
> Thanks, but there is no such setting on the TV. My TV is an AKAI pdp4294.

The problem you are having is because Titanic isn't 16x9 enhanced, so
there are only two ways to display it correctly on your TV set. One is
pillarboxed, which will give you black bars on both the sides, as well
as the top and bottom of the screen. The other way is to zoom into the
picture to elliminate the side bars.

Your TV is set to stretch the picture side-to-side rather than zooming
in. There should be a different setting that will work for you.

Mark Spatny

"Mark Spatny" <> wrote in message
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> > Thanks, but there is no such setting on the TV. My TV is an AKAI
pdp4294.
>
> The problem you are having is because Titanic isn't 16x9 enhanced, so
> there are only two ways to display it correctly on your TV set. One is
> pillarboxed, which will give you black bars on both the sides, as well
> as the top and bottom of the screen. The other way is to zoom into the
> picture to elliminate the side bars.
>
> Your TV is set to stretch the picture side-to-side rather than zooming
> in. There should be a different setting that will work for you.

If nothing else works, and the DVD player is a progressive scan model,
turn off progressive scan and try again. The TV may be one of those
models that locks into 16:9 stretch on all progressive scan signals
regardless of whether the disc is anamorphically enhanced or not.

Joshua Zyber

lid (Piper) wrote:

I have a new 16:9 flat panel plasma EDTV and am having a display problem
with some DVD's. DVD's that are "letter boxed" (not anamorphic or
"enhanced for wide screen TV's") appear stretched and too wide (Titanic
DVD is one of them). My DVD player is set properly for the 16:9 display.
There are zoom modes available on the DVD and the plasma monitor but
they don't really go to the correct aspect ratio and they seem to lower
the resolution and cut off parts of the picture. Am I missing some key
setup information here or is this just the way it is?
Thanks for any help, * * Kim
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Set you DVD player to "letterbox" not 16:9 (or widescreen). You set your
DVD player to "16:9" when a disc is anamorphic.

Maverick Dude