Re: New Panasonic DMP-BD10a Announcement - $599 - 5 free BDs
I just got through testing my 10A and was confused by the above posts since I'd always had my player hooked up via HDMI. All my 4:3 discs played properly inside the pillar box. Even some of my old non anamorph letterboxed DVD played with the 2.35 picture inside the 4:3 box. Luckily my TV lets me go to zoom mode which extends the DVD out to the full width (now properly letterboxed instead of Window-boxed) though the detail suffered a bit as you would expect, but overall not too bad. Apparently some TV don't allow this manipulation for HDMI.EDIT: Now I'm back to being confused. Went back and hooked everything up by components, and my 4:3 discs still display correctly pillared though as expected only at 480p. TV set to normal (other choices Zoom, Wide, Wide Zoom) for component input, 10A menu set to display 16:9 (other choices 480 P/S, 480 Letterbox, and 16:9 Full) at Component Resolution 720p or 1080i. Could it be an individual TV component problem rather than an overall design issue? I'm running the last firmware 2.4.
