Posted by Taipan on 01/23/06 16:44

don't use the scart, use the svhs connection if you can for the recording
with seperate audio leads if you can, this rectified the problem on mine.
"Larry G" <thelarry_g3@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I received a Cyberhome DVD Recorder DVR 1600 model for Christmas. There
> are things I like about it, but there is one oddity. On the zoom
> feature, the player artificially adds *artificial* letterbox lines when
> the picture is zoomed in on a film. Normally, the picture "fills out"
> the screen when it does this. Is there anyway to turn these
> *artificial* letterfox lines off. It does this on both the 4:3 pan and
> scan mode and the 4:3 letterbox mode, but not the 16:9 widescreen mode,
> but if I do this on my 4:3 TV, the images look elongated.
>
> Another thing I'm not so pleased with is that for some reason
> installing the player causes interference on my digital satellite TV
> signal, so recording on it is worse than any VCR ever was even on "HQ".
> I'm really stumped and scratching my head on this one, but will leave
> that for another time.
>
> At any rate, the zoom debate about image quality and director's
> intentions aside (please), can anyone tell me if there is a way to
> remove the artificial letterbox additions on zoom, it is really odd,
> especially since the player has a "zoom out" feature, one of the few
> I've seen with the feature.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Larry
>

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