Greg Lovern
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I have a Sanyo FW65R70F TV and a Sony BDP-S360 blu-ray player. When I play Disney's 1946 "Make Mine Music" DVD ("Gold Collection", 2000), it plays zoomed so that it fills the 16:9 screen side to side, and the top and bottom of the picture is cut off.
This problem doesn't happen with other 4:3 DVDs such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies. I've only seen it with this disc. Again this is a 1946 movie; it should display at 4:3.
I've gone through all the picture settings in the TV and the blu-ray player and I didn't find anything that makes it display right.
As expected, the TV has a stretch setting and a zoom setting. The stretch setting stretches it side to side and cuts off parts of the sides. The Zoom setting zooms even more and cuts of parts of the picture on all four sides. After testing those settings with Make Mine Music I turned them back off.
Any suggestions on what I can do to get it to display right? It's particularly bothersome on the "Peter and the Wolf" chapter, where important parts of the picture are cut off.
UPDATE:
I sampled some more early Disney DVDs and found two more with the same problem:
-- Saludos Amigos (1943, "Gold Collection", 2000)
-- Pinocchio (1940, "Limited Issue", 1999)
But other early Disney DVDs did NOT have the problem, and instead displayed correctly in 4:3 aspect ratio:
-- Peter Pan ("Limited Issue", 1999)
-- Three Caballeros ("Gold Collection")
-- Alice in Wonderland ("Gold Collection")
-- Fun and Fancy Free ("Gold Collection")
-- Melody Time ("Gold Collection")
-- Dumbo ("60th Anniversary Edition")
-- Snow White ("Platinum Edition")
Of course Pinocchio and Saludos Amigos are available in a later and better blu-ray editions. But that 2000 release of Make Mine Music was the only one. And it isn't available for streaming on Disney+.
ANOTHER UPDATE:
I found a setting that makes it display right. If I tell the blu-ray player that I have a 4:3 TV, then it displays correctly. I suppose I'll just have to change that setting for these DVDs and change it back for all others. Is there a better way? Again, there has been no later release of Make Mine Music and it's not available for streaming.
Weird that it affects only those DVDS and not other early Disney DVDs of similar vintage.
This problem doesn't happen with other 4:3 DVDs such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies. I've only seen it with this disc. Again this is a 1946 movie; it should display at 4:3.
I've gone through all the picture settings in the TV and the blu-ray player and I didn't find anything that makes it display right.
As expected, the TV has a stretch setting and a zoom setting. The stretch setting stretches it side to side and cuts off parts of the sides. The Zoom setting zooms even more and cuts of parts of the picture on all four sides. After testing those settings with Make Mine Music I turned them back off.
Any suggestions on what I can do to get it to display right? It's particularly bothersome on the "Peter and the Wolf" chapter, where important parts of the picture are cut off.
UPDATE:
I sampled some more early Disney DVDs and found two more with the same problem:
-- Saludos Amigos (1943, "Gold Collection", 2000)
-- Pinocchio (1940, "Limited Issue", 1999)
But other early Disney DVDs did NOT have the problem, and instead displayed correctly in 4:3 aspect ratio:
-- Peter Pan ("Limited Issue", 1999)
-- Three Caballeros ("Gold Collection")
-- Alice in Wonderland ("Gold Collection")
-- Fun and Fancy Free ("Gold Collection")
-- Melody Time ("Gold Collection")
-- Dumbo ("60th Anniversary Edition")
-- Snow White ("Platinum Edition")
Of course Pinocchio and Saludos Amigos are available in a later and better blu-ray editions. But that 2000 release of Make Mine Music was the only one. And it isn't available for streaming on Disney+.
ANOTHER UPDATE:
I found a setting that makes it display right. If I tell the blu-ray player that I have a 4:3 TV, then it displays correctly. I suppose I'll just have to change that setting for these DVDs and change it back for all others. Is there a better way? Again, there has been no later release of Make Mine Music and it's not available for streaming.
Weird that it affects only those DVDS and not other early Disney DVDs of similar vintage.
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