Ray Ruggaurs
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- May 16, 2003
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Hi everyone!
I've noticed that my DVD player has a 4:3 squeeze option. It appears to output 16:9 DVD's in a squished 4:3 format and add pillar boxes to 4:3 content DVDs.
My observations good for:
- watching letterboxed 4:3 movies as it allows the film to take up all the horizontal real estate on a WS TV (with the help of the TV's zoom modes), and
- full screen 4:3 movies with 16:9 menus with the latter's benefit that I don't have to change the setup on the TV) BTW, this is for a widescreen TV.
Now for 16:9 content theoretically there's no loss of data since 480 or 576 anamorphic is a still a 4:3 shaped rectangle.
But for 4:3 content, is the DVD player removing vertical information to make room for the pillar boxes? In other words - is this set up not getting the most out of a fullscreen 4:3 DVD?
I assume then for full screen 4:3 DVD's I'm better off using the 4:3 letter box or 16:9 wide option to retain the full resolution of 4:3 content?
Thanks
I've noticed that my DVD player has a 4:3 squeeze option. It appears to output 16:9 DVD's in a squished 4:3 format and add pillar boxes to 4:3 content DVDs.
My observations good for:
- watching letterboxed 4:3 movies as it allows the film to take up all the horizontal real estate on a WS TV (with the help of the TV's zoom modes), and
- full screen 4:3 movies with 16:9 menus with the latter's benefit that I don't have to change the setup on the TV) BTW, this is for a widescreen TV.
Now for 16:9 content theoretically there's no loss of data since 480 or 576 anamorphic is a still a 4:3 shaped rectangle.
But for 4:3 content, is the DVD player removing vertical information to make room for the pillar boxes? In other words - is this set up not getting the most out of a fullscreen 4:3 DVD?
I assume then for full screen 4:3 DVD's I'm better off using the 4:3 letter box or 16:9 wide option to retain the full resolution of 4:3 content?
Thanks