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Philips DVDR75

mib150 (Competent) posted this on Thursday, 8th January 2004, 16:38

Recently bought a DVDR 75 (from Richer Sounds £220 multi region), this is my first ever DVD player, watched LOTR Two Towers last night, great film. Just a question about the playback of the film. I was getting the film in letterbox, I tried to change the settings on my DVD from 4:3 Letterbox to 4:3 Panscan to 16:9 but there was no effect??

Any advice....Cheers.




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Spoonthumbs (Competent) posted this on Thursday, 8th January 2004, 21:19

Maybe a silly question, but what type of telly do you have? May need to change it`s settings, or use the RGB connection to the television. ;)

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phelings (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 8th January 2004, 23:50

The film is only in widescreen on the dvd.If you are watching on a 4:3 set you will get borders top and bottom.
If the film is 1.85:1,it should fill a widescreen completely,but if its 2.35:1,even a widescreen set will still have borders,albeit smaller than on the standard screen

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mib150 (Competent) posted this on Friday, 9th January 2004, 16:21

My TV is just a large 4:3 TV. Could I use the zoom option or will this just loose me the edges?




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phelings (Elite) posted this on Friday, 9th January 2004, 22:16

Depending on the zoom modes,a 1.5 should lessen the borders and give you good quality,but anymore than 1.5 zoom and picture will suffer badly-the zoom on dvd players work differently on each model-some only allow zoom in pause-most don`t zoom while in motion

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christophersonoo (Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 15th January 2004, 08:52

Weird - I also am a first time DVD player owner, having just bought the £220 DVDR 75 from Richer sounds, and own a big old 4:3 telly! And I have had the same problem, and was looking on the internet for a solution.

I borrowed Blade Runner directors cut but could only watch it with huge black bars top and bottom, even though I selected "4:3 Panscan". I looked in the manual, and I think the machine will only do full hieght pictures if the DVD disc itself supports this "panscan" thing.

Have you had any more luck fixing it? Can`t say It`s much of an improvement on video at the moment as effectively the pictures is about half the size, albeit slightly better quality!

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Oscar Wallace (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 15th January 2004, 09:10

Whats up with black bars,I remember in the eighties when BBC2 showed a season of films in widescreen they stoped it because of complaints from viewers,give me black bars and widescreen anytime! :) :)

Oscar.

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christophersonoo (Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 15th January 2004, 13:27

Having read a few more of the comments on this site, it seems most people would agree with you that seeing the whole widescreen image (presumably as the director intended) in a letterbox is better than "pan scam" (as someone put it).

Having said that, I would like the option to watch the movie at least particially zoomed in, to see the images in a bit more detail (this is possible on my freeview box, I assumed it would be on DVD). Either that or I`ll sit nearer the screen! I need to experiment with some more disks anyway.

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phelings (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 15th January 2004, 21:46

Get into the modern age-get a W/S set.
The zoom mode(if you have one) will fill the screen more,but only by chopping the sides off-which is what your Freeview box does-you must have noticed credits,titles etc missing on the edges

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Kenji (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 16th January 2004, 21:36

Having just bought Sky+ and about to buy a DVD recorder, I just cant afford a W/S set yet :( However I have found that if I sat on the floor, 2 inches from the screen with the sound turned up it was just like watching Eastenders at the Cinema!!

Well - it was until the wife caved the back of my head in with a shoe and I smashed my nose into the tv anyway >:( (Bl**dy Eastenders eh!)

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