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Posted by Biz on 02/02/06 01:15
Most all consumer tvs have whats called overscan. SOmetimes it can be
adjusted depending on the tv, and if you can find the instructions on how to
do it without messing up your tv...a very loose rule of thumb is the better
the tv, the less the overscan...on a crappy no name 27" tv from Walmart or
some small dept store, its quite possible that due to overscan, an entire
ticker banner, like line scores from ESPN or some such channle, could be
completetly off the screen....
"MS" <No.Way.Jose@No.Spam.Thank.You.com> wrote in message
news:SY6Ef.13373$wl.3755@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> 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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