HD TV dvd display issues

I bit the bullet and bought a 37" widescreen 1080i ( not from Comet of
course) and I spent a good while setting up and adjusting so actors no
longer appear to be of the Dale Winton or Tango schools ( tall thin and
orangey or very short fat and orangey) and I am very satisfied with the
results.
Apart from when playing DVD's I do have a lot of NTSC widescreen which play
thro' a region 2 device hacked to be region free ok on the old 4:3 CRT
usual letterbox but annoyingly in on the new dgital they are in a 16:9
letter box with a black surrounding reduing the screen size markedly.
I guess thats because the PAL player cannot interpret the NTSC screen format
signal correctly so question is as I have to upgrade should I be looking for
a player capable of upscaling so the "widescreen none HD" media will play
correctly or would any decent region free DVD do this anyway?

DerekW

Apart from when playing DVD's I do have a lot of NTSC widescreen which
play thro' a region 2 device hacked to be region free ok on the old 4:3
CRT usual letterbox but annoyingly in on the new dgital they are in a
16:9 letter box with a black surrounding reduing the screen size markedly.

Your DVD player will have a setting for the display type. If you previously
had a 4:3 set but now have a 16:9 one, you will need to change this setting.

"dB" wrote in message
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Apart from when playing DVD's I do have a lot of NTSC widescreen which
play thro' a region 2 device hacked to be region free ok on the old 4:3
CRT usual letterbox but annoyingly in on the new dgital they are in a
16:9 letter box with a black surrounding reduing the screen size
markedly.

Your DVD player will have a setting for the display type. If you
previously had a 4:3 set but now have a 16:9 one, you will need to change
this setting.

Managed to find the manual online and you are on the money I had been trying
to find a setting with a DVD in the drive, it works when empty and displays
an OSD menu simple really I should have guessed.
DerekW

"DerekW" wrote in message
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I bit the bullet and bought a 37" widescreen 1080i ( not from Comet of
course) and I spent a good while setting up and adjusting so actors no
longer appear to be of the Dale Winton or Tango schools ( tall thin and
orangey or very short fat and orangey) and I am very satisfied with the
results.
Apart from when playing DVD's I do have a lot of NTSC widescreen which
play thro' a region 2 device hacked to be region free ok on the old 4:3
CRT usual letterbox but annoyingly in on the new dgital they are in a
16:9 letter box with a black surrounding reduing the screen size markedly.
I guess thats because the PAL player cannot interpret the NTSC screen
format signal correctly so question is as I have to upgrade should I be
looking for a player capable of upscaling so the "widescreen none HD"
media will play correctly or would any decent region free DVD do this
anyway?

DerekW




are you sure you're not playing non anamorphic dvds? - if so you'd need to
put the tv into zoom mode.
they are just old dvds that were not mastered to appear full resolution on a
16:9 screen.



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Gareth.

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