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Posted by M.I.5 on 01/09/07 08:35
"Joshua Zyber" <joshzyber@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "M.I.5" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:45a1f3e3$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
>> Investigated mine further over the weekend. I discovered that the
>> actual recording is in letterbox 4:3 format, but the disk is flagged
>> to instruct the player to output the image in anamorphic 16:9 if the
>> player is set to 16:9 (I didn't know DVDs could do that - I knew they
>> could do it the other way round). It seems that the DVD player that I
>> used (Pioneer) ignored the flag. Playing it on all the other players
>> that I have around, did indeed give an anamorphic video output. Could
>> your disk be of this type.
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> The major studios do not release new titles in non-anamorphic letterbox
> format. They just don't. Your insistence that the Dead Man's Chest DVD is
> in this format is borderline delusional. You're clearly misunderstanding
> the readout on your DVD player.
>
Well that's what thought to start with and they certainly claim that they
don't. Which is why I copied the .VOB file without the .IFO file and played
that. It is clearly in letterbox.
I would post a frame grab if it wasn't for the fact that binary attachments
are verbotten.
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirates-Caribbean-Dead-Mans-Chest/dp/B000IHZ4F6/sr=8-1/qid=1168299841/ref=pd_ka_1/202-0832938-4850212?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
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That looks very much like the edition that I have.
I'm afraid, I'm becoming very cynical about this because Sky have clearly
degraded their transmissions from just before Christmas. Their digital
quality was marginally better than Freeview, but now it is very noticeably
worse (and Sky deny that anything has changed). Their output contains
advertisements for their HD service that are clearly better than their
standard output (are people really taken in by this?). Their early HD
adverts actually caused problems with some Sky boxes as the artificially
lower MPEG compression caused problems (with Pace Sky+ boxes being
particularly badly affected). The adverts naturally only contain slow
moving material designed to compress well.
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