My widscreen Evolution disc is in Pan Scan!! (1 Viewer)

[Jens Raethel]

I bought the widscreen Evolution DVD, poped it in the player and to my surprice it was the Pan scan version!

Even on the disc it self it says 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widscreen!

Has anybody had the same problem?

 

[cafink]

Is it the American Region 1 release? I don't think there is a pan-and-scan version available.

It sounds most likely as though your DVD player is set up incorrectly. If you have a standard 4:3 television, be sure that your player is set to "4:3 letterbox" video not "16:9" video. If it's set to "16:9," the picture will be distorted. It'll be tall and skinny, and fill your screen vertically, like a pan-and-scan transfer.

If that's not the case, then I'm afraid I can't help you.

 

[David Lambert]

Carl, I was just thinking the EXACT same thing; that the setting is wrongly on 16:9 instead of 4:3. I can confirm that there is not supposed to be any R1 release other than the widescreen version on this particular title.

 

[Mathias Klemme]

But look at Jens' signature... he has a real HT, and I guess he knows how to set up his player, huh?

 

[AdrianJ]

Just because you have a "real" home theater setup, doesn't mean you can't make a mistake in the setup. My DVD player defaults to 16x9 and I never noticed it until I bought an anamorphic DVD. It played non-anamorphic DVDs correctly, so I assumed it was correct. Not to mention the fact that, at least on my player, the selection of 16x9 or 4:3 is buried deep within the menus.

 

[Sean Moon]

I would think he had his screen set up properly too, but you never know. Also, the pic he has from Star Wars looks like it was in 16:9 when it needed to be in 4:3. So maybe the same thing is happening.

Or maybe Evolution is a pan and scan on the fly? Not bloody likely

 

[Joey B]

To me, it looks like a 4:3 screen. Check out the paramount logo, although it's hard to tell from the screenshots of the other movies. But Ep. 1 looks stretched...

Joey

 

[LukeB]

So many people have their DVD players set up to think that their 4:3 TV is a 16:9. :frowning:

 

[Keith_R]

his creen looks more 4:3 to me.