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I feel like such a newbie...so no one laugh please
just bought myself a new tv and have finally gone widescreen....my question is this.....my new tv (a sony kv32ls60) has 4:3 14:9 "zoom" "wide" and "smart"
which one should I use to watch standard anamorphic dvds
obviously not 4:3 or 14:9 but which of the other three
Not sure about Sony's but I would say Wide
wide for 16:9 anamorphic dvds.
zoom for widescreen non anamorphic dvds.
smart is to stretch 4:3 to fill a widescreen tv set. Purists will avoid.
Yeah Sweetmate has the right info............
I have somtimes used Smart on widescreen non-anamorphic movies where in zoom the subtitles have got cut off :nuts: :p
Originally posted by unrealnils
Yeah Sweetmate has the right info............
I have somtimes used Smart on widescreen non-anamorphic movies where in zoom the subtitles have got cut off :nuts: :p
If the non-anamorphic movie is 2.35 you can often use zoom and move the picture up (with the up and down cursor keys) so that the subs are visible. If its 1.85 then you're outta luck.
If the non-anamorphic movie is 2.35 you can often use zoom and move the picture up (with the up and down cursor keys) so that the subs are visible. If its 1.85 then you're outta luck.
That works most of the time except for my R2 Taxi. Even though the film is 2:35, the subtitles are so big even with the top of the picture is off the screen some of the letters are also off the bottom.
I take it the Sony does not have a flexible zoom,which allows you to set the size of the zoom.
No it has a mode called smart which the Tv set's itself to what ever is being shown on the screen :nuts:
Not quite. Smart does a non-linear stretch of a 4:3 image - the outer edges are stretched more than the center of the image. If your player or STB flags an image as anamorphic via a pin on your SCART cable, the TV will correctly force itself into "Wide" mode. For a non-anamorphic image, it will revert back to the last screen mode selected (Smart, 4:3, Zoom, or even Wide, if you physically select it).
On analogue terrestrial transmissions that use PAL+ (ITV and Channel 4), the broadcaster can flag a broadcast as being letterboxed non-anamorphic using one of the picture lines - in this case, the TV will force itself into Zoom mode.
Sony's do have an auto-format "feature" which I suggest you turn off. It tries to detect dark regions on the top and bottom of the screen, and subsequently changes the screen mode to Zoom or Smart/4:3. Can't say it works too well on dark images. :rolleyes:
just bought myself a new tv and have finally gone widescreen....my question is this.....my new tv (a sony kv32ls60) has 4:3 14:9 "zoom" "wide" and "smart"
which one should I use to watch standard anamorphic dvds
obviously not 4:3 or 14:9 but which of the other three
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Not sure about Sony's but I would say Wide
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wide for 16:9 anamorphic dvds.
zoom for widescreen non anamorphic dvds.
smart is to stretch 4:3 to fill a widescreen tv set. Purists will avoid.
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Yeah Sweetmate has the right info............
I have somtimes used Smart on widescreen non-anamorphic movies where in zoom the subtitles have got cut off :nuts: :p
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Originally posted by unrealnils
Yeah Sweetmate has the right info............
I have somtimes used Smart on widescreen non-anamorphic movies where in zoom the subtitles have got cut off :nuts: :p
If the non-anamorphic movie is 2.35 you can often use zoom and move the picture up (with the up and down cursor keys) so that the subs are visible. If its 1.85 then you're outta luck.
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If the non-anamorphic movie is 2.35 you can often use zoom and move the picture up (with the up and down cursor keys) so that the subs are visible. If its 1.85 then you're outta luck.
That works most of the time except for my R2 Taxi. Even though the film is 2:35, the subtitles are so big even with the top of the picture is off the screen some of the letters are also off the bottom.
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I take it the Sony does not have a flexible zoom,which allows you to set the size of the zoom.
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No it has a mode called smart which the Tv set's itself to what ever is being shown on the screen :nuts:
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Not quite. Smart does a non-linear stretch of a 4:3 image - the outer edges are stretched more than the center of the image. If your player or STB flags an image as anamorphic via a pin on your SCART cable, the TV will correctly force itself into "Wide" mode. For a non-anamorphic image, it will revert back to the last screen mode selected (Smart, 4:3, Zoom, or even Wide, if you physically select it).
On analogue terrestrial transmissions that use PAL+ (ITV and Channel 4), the broadcaster can flag a broadcast as being letterboxed non-anamorphic using one of the picture lines - in this case, the TV will force itself into Zoom mode.
Sony's do have an auto-format "feature" which I suggest you turn off. It tries to detect dark regions on the top and bottom of the screen, and subsequently changes the screen mode to Zoom or Smart/4:3. Can't say it works too well on dark images. :rolleyes:
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