Non-anamorphic discs; how do ya watch 'em?
04-22-08, 11:32 AM
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Non-anamorphic discs; how do ya watch 'em?
Zoomed, with blurrier picture or 4:3, with black bars on all four sides?
(assuming, of course, you have a 16:9 TV)
(assuming, of course, you have a 16:9 TV)
04-24-08, 11:21 PM
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I stretch the fucker. Yeah, that's right.
05-08-08, 03:55 PM
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I find that if I zoom with the TV it looks fine, but if I use the DVD player's internal stretch function in the setup menu (16:9 full or something like that) than it looks pixelated.
(So far I only have 2 non-anamorphic DVD left)
05-20-08, 11:51 PM
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My TV has a "wide zoom" option, which is a combination of some zooming and some stretching (better than straight zooming or straight stretching). Still not ideal, but better than nothing I guess. But I'd still rather watch such a disc on a regular 1.33:1 TV (which is how I prefer to watch letterboxed laserdiscs as well) or try to ditch the disc for an anamorphic one if I can.
05-21-08, 03:22 AM
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My main place to watch DVDs is on my computer's 22" widescreen monitor, at the moment. In VLC media player, you can right click on something non-anamorphic and go to Crop, and then 16:9. This does the trick as it ends up cropping out all the extra and it looks just like an anamorphic DVD.
