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That link supports my argument, not yours.

16:9 DVDs do not exist. All DVDs are 4:3, including widescreen films, which are squashed into their correct AR by the player. This is what Anamorphic Widescreen is. I explained this only two posts ago.

It isn't lost on me, it's lost on you. The Maltese Falcon is indeed 1.33:1 on DVD, but your previous post suggests it is actually 1.37:1 and is being cropped down to 1.33:1 by the player .Which is not true at all. The image is pre-cropped to 4:3 by the disc producers because 4:3 is the only...

There is no such thing as a 1.37:1 image on a DVD. The DVD format supports 1.33:1 only (this includes widescreen films, the image is stretched to fill the 4:3 spec and then "anamorphised" by the player). For the record, my BD player was cropping 1.33:1 DVDs to 1.29:1. I measured it.

It isn't a problem for all BD players, as already discussed above, and has nothing to do with the changing of aspect ratios between DVD and BD discs. I think you're maybe confused.

I had no confirmation of the issue until a few hours ago. When I posted here I was completely unsure about it. The purpose of this topic was not to bash Panasonic. Although, now that I have identified it as a problem that originates with the player and cannot be corrected, I'm not exactly going...

The player always has done the upscaling, changing it to the TV makes no difference. Anyway, thanks for the help but I've had confirmation this is present on other Panasonic units as well. It seems they only show 4:3 DVD material as 704 pixels wide, rather than the full 720. David Mackenzie from...

At least I know now I'm not going crazy!

Actually, I've also swapped out one of my Pannys with a crappy Philips BD player I borrowed, and it displays properly. The DVDs show true 4:3 and reveal the missing information. So it cannot be the screen or the AV, it definitely is the players.

Does your BD35 show it correctly though? It can be difficult to tell with the naked eye, between 1.33:1 and something slightly narrower. The best way to make sure is the zoom test I've detailed above.

This is true, and is how mine is set up. If you actually measure the dimensions of the 4:3 DVD images I'm confident you'll find they are narrower than they should be, approximately 1.29:1. If you zoom the image using the remote, Option-Screen Aspect-Zoom, you'll notice the missing information...

I've taken this query all over the net and seem to be getting nowhere. I really hope you guys can help, you're my last hope: I've discovered recently that my Panasonic BDT110, BD65, and PS3 all have some sort of built in overscan that I cannot turn off. It does not affect Blu-rays or anamorphic...