Question:
When I had my Panasonic A160, which I had for nearly three years, it always autmotically switched my tv to widescreen mode when an anamorphic disk was played. I got a multi-region Denon-800 about a month ago and although I think it's an overall better player I've noticed that it occasionally doesn't switch to widescreen when playing an anamorphic disk?
Is there any reason for this?
It happened just now. When I put a disk in it stayed on "super zoom"? I knew the disk was anamorphic so I switched off my player and turned it back on again, this time it correctly read the disk as anamorphic and switched my tv to "widescreen"?
Strange eh? Any ideas?:confused:
Does this only happen on R1 DVDs?
So far Phil, yes.
Your problem is that there are two ways that your DVD player can tell your TV to switch to widescreen.
The DVD player can put a voltage on one of the pins on the scart lead and tell the TV to swictch to 16:9.
The DVD player can hide the signal in one of the lines of the picture (actually it might be recorded onto the DVD, I'm not sure). The advantages of this method are that there is a signal for 16:9, 4:3, and 16:9 zoom , allowing more exact control for TV, it survives being recorded, again, good for TV, and it works without a scart lead ie s-video or componant leads. The disadvantage is that the line used is different for NTSC than for PAL, some TVs do not recognise the NTSC switching.
If you're no longer using a scart lead, try that, alternatively, if you are using a scart lead, try looking for sometihing in the set-up menu of your DVD player, like scart control.
Thanks Phil!:)
I find it strange how it only happens sometimes though?
You'd think if it didn't recognise NTSC switching it would never do it wouldn't you. Still at least I know it's a legitimate reason now and there's nothing wrong with my tv or player. If it does happen I'll just manually switch to widescreen.
Thanks again for your help.:) :thumbs:
Is there any reason for this?
It happened just now. When I put a disk in it stayed on "super zoom"? I knew the disk was anamorphic so I switched off my player and turned it back on again, this time it correctly read the disk as anamorphic and switched my tv to "widescreen"?
Strange eh? Any ideas?:confused:
Answers:
Does this only happen on R1 DVDs?
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So far Phil, yes.
Answers:
Your problem is that there are two ways that your DVD player can tell your TV to switch to widescreen.
The DVD player can put a voltage on one of the pins on the scart lead and tell the TV to swictch to 16:9.
The DVD player can hide the signal in one of the lines of the picture (actually it might be recorded onto the DVD, I'm not sure). The advantages of this method are that there is a signal for 16:9, 4:3, and 16:9 zoom , allowing more exact control for TV, it survives being recorded, again, good for TV, and it works without a scart lead ie s-video or componant leads. The disadvantage is that the line used is different for NTSC than for PAL, some TVs do not recognise the NTSC switching.
If you're no longer using a scart lead, try that, alternatively, if you are using a scart lead, try looking for sometihing in the set-up menu of your DVD player, like scart control.
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Thanks Phil!:)
I find it strange how it only happens sometimes though?
You'd think if it didn't recognise NTSC switching it would never do it wouldn't you. Still at least I know it's a legitimate reason now and there's nothing wrong with my tv or player. If it does happen I'll just manually switch to widescreen.
Thanks again for your help.:) :thumbs:
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