Just bought a Panny PT47wx42! Some questions. (1 Viewer)

[Bill Slack]

Jael:

You 'zoom' DVDs aren't 'enchanced for widescreen tvs' aka 'anamorphic' because if you don't, on a widescreen TV, you will have a squished picture with the incorrect aspect ratio. You are merely zooming in on the picture to eliminate empty black bars, there is no picture loss.

 

[EugeneR]

Thanks, Louis.

 

[Chris PC]

Right. Zooming on a non-anamorphic DVD doesn't fix the problem. The non-anamorphic DVD's are in a 4:3 box, so you can't just zoom them, you have to un-squeeze them too, in order for the picture to fit the 16:9 space, right? This is the same for 1:85:1 and 2.35:1 as we understand that 2.35:1 have the grey bars on top and bottom.

 

[Steve_Tk]

He was saying the same thing I was saying. We were not talking about non anamorphic, we are asking why would anyone zoom an anamorphic 2.35:1 dvd. I get asked a lot "why do I see small black bars on my widescreen set?" And they just zoom in so they don't see the black bars anymore.

I understand why you would zoom a non-anamorphic dvd, just don't know why you would zoom on an anamorphic dvd.