|  | Posted by MS on 02/02/06 15:11 
Thanks for all the replies.Regards, Etc.
 
 
 MS emailed this:
 > Hi,
 >
 > My Sony KD-32DC11 WS TV or my Pioneer DV-444 DVD Player is cropping the
 > edge of a DVD movie, the 1997 (original) Norwegian movie Insomnia. I
 > wouldn't have noticed except that the first letter or two of the
 > subtitles is often lost on the left of the screen (the subtitles on this
 > DVD are further left than on most films). The movie is widescreen 16:9
 > aspect ratio and the TV is also widescreen. The DVD player is setup to
 > output to a widescreen 16:9 TV. Everything is PAL Region 2.
 >
 > When I tested the DVD by playing it on my PC using WinDVD everything was
 > as it should be, the subtitles were never cropped on the left and when I
 > compared the image on the TV and on the PC, the horizontal cropping was
 > noticeable. On the TV this cropping takes place regardless of what
 > aspect ratio I set the TV to; 4:3, wide, zoom, and smart all crop the
 > image.
 >
 > I can't think why this would happen. My investigations went as far as
 > loading one of the DVD's VOB files into some video format conversion
 > software, the excellent, Canopus ProCoder 2. This gives loads of info.
 > on the encoding of a video file. One bit said:
 >
 > Video Frame Size: 720 x 576
 > Display Size: 540 x 576
 >
 > This seems to suggest something is rotten. But it plays fine on my PC
 > but not on my TV !!
 >
 > Any advice as to what is going on and how to resolve it would be great.
 > I'm worried this may have been happening with other DVDs without my
 > noticing.
 >
 > Many thanks and regards,
 >
 > MS
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