Audiovox mobile player showing black bars all around

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I bought this audiovox D1020 mobile DVD in a bag (10" 16:9 screen) to
use in home and car. We played the "lord of the rings - return of
king" rental DVD. It showed picture with black bars all around.
Thinking it has something to do with DVD content itself, I switched to
broadcast TV. The PBS channel which transmits content in widescreen
(appears letterboxed in normal TV) also appeared with black bars all
around. Now I think it may be fault of the player. There is a "wide"
button on the player but pressing it just stretches the tiny picture
horizontally. Why can't 16:9 content fillup an entire 16:9 screen
without black bars on all 4 sides? Other channels appear normally with
black bars on left and right side. Should I return this unit? I didn't
buy a 10" screen to watch widescreen content on only 7" of it.

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"Duke" <sorry@spam.com> wrote in message news:<UKENc.4739$jd.344819@twister.tampabay.rr.com>...
> "SS" <sridhara@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:95650bb5.0407271811.53cba6e7@posting.google.com...
> > I bought this audiovox D1020 mobile DVD in a bag (10" 16:9 screen) to
> > use in home and car. We played the "lord of the rings - return of
> > king" rental DVD. It showed picture with black bars all around.
> > Thinking it has something to do with DVD content itself, I switched to
> > broadcast TV. The PBS channel which transmits content in widescreen
> > (appears letterboxed in normal TV) also appeared with black bars all
> > around. Now I think it may be fault of the player. There is a "wide"
> > button on the player but pressing it just stretches the tiny picture
> > horizontally. Why can't 16:9 content fillup an entire 16:9 screen
> > without black bars on all 4 sides? Other channels appear normally with
> > black bars on left and right side. Should I return this unit? I didn't
> > buy a 10" screen to watch widescreen content on only 7" of it.
> >
>
> Not all Widescreen movies will fill up a 16x9 screen on the top and bottom.
> There are many different aspect ratios. The 16x9 was what "they" felt was
> the best median decision for displaying all widescreen aspect ratios.
>
> Duke


The audiovox mobile players have a problem with their initial setup.
Although the screen is a 16:9, the initial setup is defaulted to 4:3.
You need to go into the setup screen and reset the display setting to
16:9.

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sridhara@yahoo.com (SS) wrote in message news:<95650bb5.0407281120.3453f008@posting.google.com>...
> Under screen setup (this only applies to DVD output as per their
> instructions) I see three choices - PS, LB and wide. I tried choosing
> one after the other. None of this had any effect. I vaguely remember
> seeing full widescreen on a DVD as soon as I set it up (before
> watching Lord of Rings DVD). Something has happened and I can't seem
> to go back to full widescreen. Now it displays 16:9 content in a small
> screen with black bars all around.
>
> SS
>
> ptmccart@netecin.net (Patrick McCarthy) wrote in message news:<fc5a3989.0407280532.56a9c585@posting.google.com>...
> > "Duke" <sorry@spam.com> wrote in message news:<UKENc.4739$jd.344819@twister.tampabay.rr.com>...
> > > "SS" <sridhara@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:95650bb5.0407271811.53cba6e7@posting.google.com...
> > > > I bought this audiovox D1020 mobile DVD in a bag (10" 16:9 screen) to
> > > > use in home and car. We played the "lord of the rings - return of
> > > > king" rental DVD. It showed picture with black bars all around.
> > > > Thinking it has something to do with DVD content itself, I switched to
> > > > broadcast TV. The PBS channel which transmits content in widescreen
> > > > (appears letterboxed in normal TV) also appeared with black bars all
> > > > around. Now I think it may be fault of the player. There is a "wide"
> > > > button on the player but pressing it just stretches the tiny picture
> > > > horizontally. Why can't 16:9 content fillup an entire 16:9 screen
> > > > without black bars on all 4 sides? Other channels appear normally with
> > > > black bars on left and right side. Should I return this unit? I didn't
> > > > buy a 10" screen to watch widescreen content on only 7" of it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Not all Widescreen movies will fill up a 16x9 screen on the top and bottom.
> > > There are many different aspect ratios. The 16x9 was what "they" felt was
> > > the best median decision for displaying all widescreen aspect ratios.
> > >
> > > Duke
> >
> >
> > The audiovox mobile players have a problem with their initial setup.
> > Although the screen is a 16:9, the initial setup is defaulted to 4:3.
> > You need to go into the setup screen and reset the display setting to
> > 16:9.

This is how I change the display for my Audiovox (Model #D1730)

- Press Setup on the remote
- Under General Setup press the right arrow (> ) to bring up the General Page
- Press the right arrow (> ) again to choose the TV Display
The three options to choose from are:
NORMAL/PS
NORMAL/LB
WIDE
- Using the down arrow (v) highlight WIDE and hit the Play Button to select.

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I finally managed to have the player display a full screen image (by
repeatedly changing settings) - don't still know how I did it. Anyway
the cable TV images coming in 16:9 aspect ratio still are displayed
with black bars all around. I would imagine they are including the top
and bottom black bars in the image for 4:3 TVs although I can't
imagine why broadcasters would want to do that.

caloonese@yahoo.com (Caloonese) wrote in message news:<ee67c74a.0407301501.7c37f746@posting.google.com>...
> Is it possible that your LOTR DVD is NOT an anamorphic widescreen
> disc, but a letter boxed 4:3 version? i.e. the top and bottom bars
> are part of the 4:3 image on the disc. Your player then padded two
> black pillars on the sides. The over all result is bars on all sides,
> two from your player and two from the disc.
>
> It is very unlikely any modern DVD is produced this way. In such
> situation, you need to use the ZOOM display mode if it is available.
>
>
>
> sridhara@yahoo.com (SS) wrote in message news:<95650bb5.0407281120.3453f008@posting.google.com>...
> > Under screen setup (this only applies to DVD output as per their
> > instructions) I see three choices - PS, LB and wide. I tried choosing
> > one after the other. None of this had any effect. I vaguely remember
> > seeing full widescreen on a DVD as soon as I set it up (before
> > watching Lord of Rings DVD). Something has happened and I can't seem
> > to go back to full widescreen. Now it displays 16:9 content in a small
> > screen with black bars all around.
> >
> > SS

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I was wrong. I found out that most region 3 DVDs produced for China
are still done in letterboxed 4:3 format. Perhaps certain markets
does not have anamorphic widescreen yet.


caloonese@yahoo.com (Caloonese) wrote in message news:<ee67c74a.0407301501.7c37f746@posting.google.com>...
> Is it possible that your LOTR DVD is NOT an anamorphic widescreen
> disc, but a letter boxed 4:3 version? i.e. the top and bottom bars
> are part of the 4:3 image on the disc. Your player then padded two
> black pillars on the sides. The over all result is bars on all sides,
> two from your player and two from the disc.
>
> It is very unlikely any modern DVD is produced this way. In such
> situation, you need to use the ZOOM display mode if it is available.
>
>
>
> sridhara@yahoo.com (SS) wrote in message news:<95650bb5.0407281120.3453f008@posting.google.com>...
> > Under screen setup (this only applies to DVD output as per their
> > instructions) I see three choices - PS, LB and wide. I tried choosing
> > one after the other. None of this had any effect. I vaguely remember
> > seeing full widescreen on a DVD as soon as I set it up (before
> > watching Lord of Rings DVD). Something has happened and I can't seem
> > to go back to full widescreen. Now it displays 16:9 content in a small
> > screen with black bars all around.
> >
> > SS