Anamorhic Question

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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:54:31 -0800, "RKRM" <rkrm@NOSPAMcomcast.net>
wrote:

>Does anamorphic require special equipment? Will any DVD player work with it?
>Any wide screen TV? Thanks.
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You sound like you just got Novocain ;-)

Any DVD player will send anamorphically enhanced material to a TV
correctly, but the TV needs to be a wide screen (16:9) HDTV TV. The
4:3 HDTV sets don't support anamorphic enhancement.

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"RKRM" <rkrm@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in
news:udednSqL_YtfwZjfRVn-oA@comcast.com:

> Does anamorphic require special equipment? Will any DVD player work
> with it? Any widescreen TV? Thanks.

I've only really looked at three DVD players and they all work with it to
some degree or other. My big Samsung 5-disc player does it best.

And yes, the mode is designed to work with a 16:9 TV raster. My TV has
the capability of doing that, so that is how I view most of my widescreen
content on my DVD library. My TV is also one of the last of the 4:3 HDTV
ready machines, so it does full-screen on the 4:3 stuff. I have to
manually switch it to 16:9 for the wide-screen stuff. I rarely ever have
to do that for broadcast materials on my satellite. Only very, very
occasionally have I seen an anamorphic broadcast, though you can expect
to see more of them probably as the sets that cannot do 16:9 in some
fashion start to disappear.

I saw one today, actually on an ethnic channel.

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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

A false witness is worse than no witness at all.

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Abe <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in
news:jboa01h4a6a8t5d667s2bsgvciqv5a7rah@4ax.com:

> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:54:31 -0800, "RKRM" <rkrm@NOSPAMcomcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Does anamorphic require special equipment? Will any DVD player work
>>with it? Any wide screen TV? Thanks.
> ------
> You sound like you just got Novocain ;-)
>
> Any DVD player will send anamorphically enhanced material to a TV
> correctly, but the TV needs to be a wide screen (16:9) HDTV TV. The
> 4:3 HDTV sets don't support anamorphic enhancement.

Actually that's not always true. I find that it's better to set the TV
to 16:9 and use the anamorphic widescreen than to let the DVD player
letterbox it in a 4:3 raster. Essentially, the entire vertical
resolution of my TV is switched into the 16:9 raster in that mode, so I
get somewhat higher definition. Look at it this way. In 16:9 mode, my
TV displays all 480 lines of the 480p signal in the vertical space taken
up by the image, whereas in 4:3 mode, the DVD player has to send 120
lines of black, leaving only 360 for the picture.

And, while my TV upconverts it (probably to 960p but I can't find any
specs online), there is still a performance improvement. The NICE thing
about my Samsung DVD player is that it will actually stretch a
letterboxed widescreen image to anamorphic before sending it to the TV.
This is only necessary with DVDs that do not actually have an anamorphic
image on them.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

A false witness is worse than no witness at all.