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Neromania
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_ 		13. May 2003 @ 14:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think this is the least UNappropriate place to place this question, so here goes:

Has anyone tried to play a FULL SCREEN dvd on a widescreen tv? What does it look like?

I know what a widescreen dvd looks like on a standard tv, its acceptable.
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_ 		14. May 2003 @ 08:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hello
Well you could have posted under General discussion in the all other topics forum. I haven't tried this yet, but from people I have talked to that have say you just get black bars on the right and left of the Tv where the image is missing. If you are asking which is better I vote for Widescreeen and like all movies and video's in widescreen format.
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_ 		17. May 2003 @ 07:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you play a full screen movie on a widescreen TV it's just like playing regular broadcast TV. If you play it in "normal" mode (a Toshiba term) you'll get bars on the left and right side. But, you'd normally not use "normal" mode to play a full screen movie. You'd use an alternative mode, in Toshiba lingo, TheaterWide 1, 2 or 3, to "stretch" or zoom the pitcure to fill the screen. Fact is, if you have or plan to buy a widescreen at some point, you should not buy or burn full screen, there's no point to it. In the end you'll lose screen real estate and destroy (or hurt) the original intent of the film's producer/director. However, depending on your process and software, the quality of a full screen DVD on a widescreen TV will still be near as good as a widescreen movie.
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_ 		19. May 2003 @ 00:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's best to set it to Widescreen. That way you just get exact copies of the original, widescreen or not. You cannot convert the format without screwing it up!
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