fuzzy_logic
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Sep 3, 2006, 8:14 AM
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Playing DVD on a Widescreen TV
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Hi,
This might be a stupid question but I really couldn't figure it out myself...
I've recently bought a Samsung LNS3251D 32" Wide LCD HDTV and this is my first widescreen TV. On a normal (4:3) TV, if you put in a widescreen DVD, the video output would only take up the middle part of the screen, leaving a black horizontal bar at the top and the bottom of the entire screen. This effectively gives the video output an aspect ration of 16:9.
When I tried playing a widescreen DVD on my new widescreen TV, the same thing happened (much to my surprise). The video output does not take up the entire TV screen and there's still a black horizontal bar at the top and the bottom of the entire screen. Since the TV itself is already 16:9, this makes the actual video output really distorted, with an aspect ratio of much wider than 16:9. Is this supposed to be the case? Shouldn't the video output take up the whole screen on a widescreen TV? Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks in advance.
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