Info and forum posts by 'Paul Holmes'

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Joined on: Tuesday, 9th July 2002, 12:12, Last used: Tuesday, 9th July 2002, 12:12

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About this user: DVD watcher

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Recent Messages Posted:

RE: Widescreen Ratios - best settings advice please (soooo confused!!)

I too have just bought my first widescreen , and found that we consumers seem to be getting ripped off again. The last upgrade to picture quality we got was to move from 405 lines to 625 lines and was informed at the time it was for clarity of picture, which indeed it was. What seems to have happened now is to squash more programs into the bandwidth available, they companies have reduced the picture quaulity, at least on my television, back down to somthing like 405 lines. (Sorry can not be bothered to do the maths), and then tell us we all have to upgrade. I now tend to check in 4:3 mode how the picture is being transmitted, and then move genrally to 14:9 if I do not want to lose lines off the top and bottom, and if I still get blank lines top and bottom, then switch to widescreen.

Another thing I have noticed, is that there is now a black shadow to the right of any high contrast colours, even when viewing on a strong signal. This is most noticable when watching tennis with a nice bright white line. I suspect this is another problem generated by trying to squash more horizontal information into the scan than it can cope with. Anybody know better.

Night of The Demon

Does anybody know if there is a region 2 dvd of this old film.
There is a R1 version for sale on E-Bay at prsent, together with the American release called "Curse of the Demon", but I have not managed to find a R2 copy.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1565849578

Sony DAV-S400

I have a region 2 Sony DAV-S400, is there a hack available for this machine please.