Why wont my DVD player show anything widecreen?
08-07-02, 09:49 AM
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Why wont my DVD player show anything widecreen?
I dont' get whats going on..
Movies like The Godfather II, Metropolis (anime), The Big Lebowski...
Nothing plays wide screen anymore. Well, they do, but the movie is not shown letterbox. It is as if it thinks I have a widescreen tv so the image scrolls outside of the picture tube window, the way it would display on a widescreen tv.
If I push the fit-to-screen button on my dvd player it expands it, which is what it would do if it was letterbox to get rid of the black bars..
But, I can't see the black bars on anything anymore.. normally when you watch something in the widescreen format you get the black bars along the top and bottom of the screen.. no longer do I get them!!
Why would this be happening?? How do I get my letterbox back!
(Using a Samsung M301 player)
Movies like The Godfather II, Metropolis (anime), The Big Lebowski...
Nothing plays wide screen anymore. Well, they do, but the movie is not shown letterbox. It is as if it thinks I have a widescreen tv so the image scrolls outside of the picture tube window, the way it would display on a widescreen tv.
If I push the fit-to-screen button on my dvd player it expands it, which is what it would do if it was letterbox to get rid of the black bars..
But, I can't see the black bars on anything anymore.. normally when you watch something in the widescreen format you get the black bars along the top and bottom of the screen.. no longer do I get them!!
Why would this be happening?? How do I get my letterbox back!
(Using a Samsung M301 player)
08-07-02, 10:03 AM
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You need to make sure your DVD player thinks you have a 4:3 TV. It sounds like somehow, now, your player thinks you have a 16:9 TV. This is changeable in your DVD players setup menus. I do not have a Samsung, so I do not know exactly where.
Good Luck,
Chauncey
Good Luck,
Chauncey
08-07-02, 10:26 AM
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Okay, so there should be an option on the dvd player itself to tell it that I have a regular sized screen then?
Okay, so there should be an option on the dvd player itself to tell it that I have a regular sized screen then?
08-07-02, 10:57 AM
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All you have to do is change your DVD setting. Simply change it to 4X3 Letterbox. I had this problem when I first got my DVD player.
