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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