Posted by Joshua Zyber on 12/09/05 12:52

"George Graves" <gmgraves@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your answer. I'm going to assume, based upon what you
> have
> said, that 4:3 content DVDs which come out stretched on the same DVD
> players

Just to clarify, it's not the DVD player doing the stretching. It's the
TV. The DVD player outputs the original 720x480 pixel video image, which
the TV is *supposed* to allow you to adjust.

> which set the aspect ratio correctly on other 4:3 content DVD
> discs does so because these discs either lack the proper flag, or the
> flag is set incorrectly (many of the discs which do this in my
> collection are older from 1998, 1999, etc.

That's a reasonable assumption.

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