Page 1 of Help Major Widescreen Problem

for some reason when i play DVDs they dont appear in Widescreen, (i only recently forund out after playing the T2 DVD and noticing that the information bits in the Terminator Vision bits went off the edges of the Screen),

im not sure whats going on, the setup on my DVD info says its running 16:9 not 4:3 or 4:3 Letterbox and TV Programs work in widescreen Corectly

My DVD is the Sony NS300 something and my TV is a Sony 32" Widescreen that was top of the line about 3-4 years ago when we got it, the DVD is connected to the TV via the AV2 Scart Socket (my Sky Digital is using the AV1 Socket)

does anyone know whats wrong and any reasons its not giving widescreen DVD playback

thanks

Your DVDs *are* playing in widescreen, believe me. What you`re describing (picture disappearing off the left and/or right of the screen) is called overscan, and most TVs suffer from it to some extent.

You can usually tweak this setting via the service menu of your TV - I`m not an expert on Sony models, but do a web search for "Sony" "service menu" "overscan" and you should come up with something. Be careful, though, as tweaking the wrong settings can wreck your TV.

Mike

I have a 32" Sony, and before I tweaked the geometry using the service menu I was losing over an inch of picture on the left, but only a little bit on the right.

I posted a link to a site that tells you how to access Sony service menus a while back - try searching this forum for `service menu` or `engineering menu`.