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I just discovered that a whole bunch of original, non-pirated Region 3
movies being sold in Asia are badly mislabeled. Too often, there would
be features advertised in the DVD sleeve, but don't exist in the DVD
itself. So now I'm wondering if the DVDs I have really are anamorphic.

Is there any way to use a PC to determine whether or not a DVD movie is
anamorphic?

You don't even have to use a PC. Just use your regular DVD player and
select "wide" from the setup menu.

This turns off the 4:3 downconversion and any anamorphic DVD image will
show distorted or "squeezed".

Mike

wrote:
>
> I just discovered that a whole bunch of original, non-pirated Region 3
> movies being sold in Asia are badly mislabeled. Too often, there would
> be features advertised in the DVD sleeve, but don't exist in the DVD
> itself. So now I'm wondering if the DVDs I have really are anamorphic.
>
> Is there any way to use a PC to determine whether or not a DVD movie is
> anamorphic?

<> wrote:
> Is there any way to use a PC to determine whether or not a DVD movie is
> anamorphic?

If you have software on your PC that shows the video in its own window,
fire up the program and start the movie and you can tell by the size of
the window.

4:3 window => Non-anamorphic
16:9 window => Anamorphic

On 10 Dec 2004 13:25:01 -0800, wrote:

>I just discovered that a whole bunch of original, non-pirated Region 3
>movies being sold in Asia are badly mislabeled. Too often, there would
>be features advertised in the DVD sleeve, but don't exist in the DVD
>itself. So now I'm wondering if the DVDs I have really are anamorphic.
>
>Is there any way to use a PC to determine whether or not a DVD movie is
>anamorphic?

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