I love viewing DVD movies and have had a player for about a month. Most of the rentals are wide screen. Is there anyway to play these on a regular tv in Full Screen. Thanks.

Nope! If you player has a zoom function you could try that, but you'd lose most of the action and it would be very low quality. Just enjoy widescreen - after a short time you'll be used to it and find full-screen programs very cramped.

Me like wide screen!!!

If it's not in widescreen, you are missing 1/3 of the original movie!

Hi,

If your DVD player has a 16:9 aspect mode this may
help.

It essentially seems to stretch the view vertically.

I have not noticed much loss horizonatlly using this mode.
Also, not all DVDs support is mode.

16:9 mode is for displaying on a widescreen television which stretches the film horizontally on screen. Some 4:3 (normal) TVs (such as the latest Sony WEGAs) can compress it vertically without loss of resolution.

If you're viewing it "stretched" out on a normal TV everything is distorted. People are taller than they should be, circles would be ovals, squares would be rectangles.

A note to all Widescreen and Letterbox non-believers...take a look at the "Widescreen/Letterbox and Open DVD Advocacy Page at the following address....or not if you enjoy not seeing almost half of what you paid good money for...http://www.widescreen.org

Buy a toshiba player like the 2109.
This one has a zoom function which cuts off very little from the sides and zooms in without quality loss. I use it in combination with a jvc tv which can also zoom in a bit.
What I really want is dvd's with both the 'full' version and the pan&scan version on the same disc!

Mike,

Why do you want the pan & scan? I'd like to hear a reason in favor of p&s by someone who understands that the picture is being lost. Most people in favor of p&s don't know this.

I love widescreen, but I have to say P&S can be useful when viewing on a small set. Sometimes it is a better trade to lose a bit of the frame to have a larger picture on the set. Other than that, I have no desire to view P&S.

Just my $.02

If it's not wide screen you maybe missing 1/3 the movie, but if it wide screen and you do not have a 16:9 TV, then you missing some of the vertical resolution. The number of vertical lines that is needed to make up the black bar's on top and bottom can result in a substantial loss of resolution in the viewing area.

There seems to be a different impact to the on the pictures resolution when the DVD is recorded in 16:9 Vs when the DVD directs the player to display 3:4 recorded picture in a 16:9 format. If anyone understands how this works, please post...

The best of both worlds seems to be a 16:9 set used to display a anamorphic 16:9 DVD. Then you
get the full picture without any loss of horizontal resolution.

Good resource: [Link: clapro.com]

-Jim

This guy must have a 19" set. Ha. Idiot.

In respone to roger,
I like p&s even though i understand the widescreen issue. If the movie is any good a p&s version will actually be more enjoyable to me. Reason is that letterboxing really annoys me, i tend to be distracted (specially in light scenes) by the black bars, even if the movie is good. With P&S i enjoy full screen, and i do not miss the lost info, as you cannot miss what you do not see. :) I would buy a 16:9 screen (I live in Holland they are plenty and affordable here) but 90% of tv broadcast and tv movies are 4:3 and p&s. And dvd disks are still too expensive for me to replace the broadcast p&s movies. (dvd here are about 25-30 us equivalent)
Have a good 2000!