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Mr Unoriginal
01-01-2007, 03:57 PM
My dad just got a 50' Sony Wega Widescreen HDTV. My question is, when watching a normal widescreen movie, what screen size is the 'truest'? The setting on the TV are "Normal," "Full," "Zoom," and "Wide Zoom". Any help?
Trakan
01-01-2007, 05:43 PM
I think normal would be the best. Normal should be for 1:85:1 anamophic widescreen movies, full should be for 4:3 content to stretch it to widescreen, and one of the zooms should be for letterboxed movies to get rid of the black bars. Not sure what the second zoom does.
Ikohn4ever
01-01-2007, 05:45 PM
i would just try it out with a movie, whatever looks best is the real truest
Chacrana
01-01-2007, 07:07 PM
Use normal since that keeps the original aspect ratio. The other options are there to stretch out non-anamorphic content should you need to... and you rarely will.
Mr Unoriginal
01-01-2007, 07:13 PM
Use normal since that keeps the original aspect ratio. The other options are there to stretch out non-anamorphic content should you need to... and you rarely will.
So its normal for a widescreen movie in "normal" format to have black bars on the sides as well?
If you intend to retain the ORIGIN aspect ratio then you will want to keep it to NORMAL at *ALL* times. As a result some movies (2:35 aspect ratio) will display black bars @ top / Bottom and those in 1:85 will fill the screen entirely. Non widescreen stuff IE: SD TV will show bars around the SIDES as it's not a widescreen format. If the bars bother you then you may use the STRETCH feature, but it wouldn't be retaining it's origin. aspect ratio. Hope this clearifies things - bottom line: as a PURIST you will always want to retain the intended ratio thus leaving it set to NORMAL.
peaceout
REWN
"Full" is the setting you are looking for. "Normal" means 4:3.
Unlike these other posters who are just guessing, I actually own a 50" Sony LCD HDTV and know what the settings do.
You should be using the auto-detect feature anyway. Sonys have ultra-super-intelligence and can tell whether to go widescreen or not!
Ok, so they don't. They just detect the scan rate and change the setting appropriately. The only time I have had the auto-detect fail is with "widescreen" PlayStation 2 games (which aren't really using widescreen scan rates, they just change the shape of the pixels).
you shouldn't have to touch your tv
just set the dvd player to 16:9
"Full" is the setting you are looking for. "Normal" means 4:3.
Unlike these other posters who are just guessing, I actually own a 50" Sony LCD HDTV and know what the settings do.
You should be using the auto-detect feature anyway. Sonys have ultra-super-intelligence and can tell whether to go widescreen or not!
Ok, so they don't. They just detect the scan rate and change the setting appropriately. The only time I have had the auto-detect fail is with "widescreen" PlayStation 2 games (which aren't really using widescreen scan rates, they just change the shape of the pixels).
Umm, actually my response was to his LAST post inquiring about 'normality' of seing black bars even in WIDESCREEN movies - the answer is 2 fold as in that YES on a 2:35 movie you will see bars, even on HD sets, it is intended to retain the full cinematic aspect ratio - 1:85 are widescreen as well but will not depict bars on widescreen tv's. EDIT: (these are bars on top/bottom I speak of not sides; shouldn't see *SIDE* bars unless watching 4:3 content on HD set in widescreen). Sorry for the confusion.
Mr Unoriginal
01-01-2007, 10:11 PM
In my post I was referring to both bars on the top/bottom AND the sides.
I looked through the TV manual it seems like "Full" is pretty much what you want to keep it on unless you are watching 'regular' tv.
Michaellvortega
01-01-2007, 10:25 PM
Just because you have a widescreen TV doesnt mean it will fill the entire screen. A lot a movies are not 16:9 but a different aspect ratio. For more information Google it up.
In my post I was referring to both bars on the top/bottom AND the sides.
I looked through the TV manual it seems like "Full" is pretty much what you want to keep it on unless you are watching 'regular' tv.
google anamorphic non-anamorphic dvd
and read this
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/aspectratios/widescreenorama.html