Posted by P Pron on 10/02/05 17:18

Evan wrote:
|| Folks,
||
|| I've recently bought a new widescreen (16:9) CRT Panasonic television
|| set.
|| I play many North American (Region 1) DVDs on my region-free Samsung
|| DVD55 DVD player. The two devices are connected via a SCART lead.
|| The fact that I have a PAL TV and DVD player may or may not be part
|| of the issue below.
||
|| I find that when I play any Reg 1 movie that has an aspect ratio of
|| 1.85:1 (practically 16:9) the very top of the frame of the movie
|| shows a thin band of coloured pixels. It appears they are coming
|| from the bottom of the picture frame, particularly noticeable when
|| the movie scene is bright. It's reminiscent of older TVs that had
|| problem with the vertical hold.
||
|| I do not have this issue when playing 1.33:1, 1.66:1, or 2.35:1 films
|| that are Region 1. Nor do my Region 2 1.85:1 movies produce this
|| issue. Furthermore, my very old 4:3 television set that I used prior
|| worked fine.
||
|| Has anyone experienced anything similar? Any thoughts on a fix?
|| It's an irritating bug that just doesn't quite warrant getting this
|| hulk of a TV back to Curry's for "repair".
||
|| Evan

A tentative suggestion - does the Samsung have a setting to output NTSC
discs as PAL or PAL 60? Might be worth trying.....

paul

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