dws(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 16th January 2003, 19:02
if i play a dvd in widescreen region 2 on a widescreen tv you get black bars top and bottom which you expect but when i put a region 1 widescreen dvd the black bars are greater so less veiwing screen is this caused by the region 1 being in ntsc signal?
RE: region 1 and region 2 widescreen question
Stiffler(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 16th January 2003, 19:08
Hmmm I have never heard of that before ? are both films in the exact same widescreen ratio ?
What TV have you got ? what DVD and how are they set up.. ie DVD player outputting PAL or NTSC, TV playing converted PAL or NTSC ??
Tim
RE: region 1 and region 2 widescreen question
clayts(Elite) posted this on Thursday, 16th January 2003, 23:26
I`ve heard of the problem the other way around (US players not converting anamorphic PAL DVDs correctly) but never the way round you suggest.
Usually a limitation of the video encoder or chipset used in the player, attempting to do one conversion too many (for the example I quoted, convert PAL picture to output NTSC, unable then to convert new NTSC picture to anamorphic - only happens on 4:3 TVs, by the way).
RE: region 1 and region 2 widescreen question
dws(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 17th January 2003, 18:12
the dvd player is tosh 100e the tv hitachi dolby digital widescreen the dvd is set on auto and tv is pal and ntsc and auto picks the signal if i play enter the dragon r2 and the same film on r1 the black bars are greater on the r1 i throught this was normal for a ntsc signal? or is the dvd ntsc setting and tv ntsc setting confusing each other which one takes prefrence?
