I know that a widescreen DVD on a regular TV causes black bars to be on the top and bottom but does something similar happen with a full-screen DVD on a widescreen DVD?
2006-10-10 00:18:53 · 6 answers · asked by joshua81em 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
full-screen dvd on widescreen tv = black bars on left and right (this can be corrected if you change the ratio on your dvd player or tv)
16:9 dvd on widescreen tv = no black bars on top or botton as picture will fill the entire screen
"letterbox" widescreen dvd on widescreen tv = black bars on top and bottom (this can be corrected if you change the ratio on dvd player or tv)
2006-10-10 09:38:18 · answer #1 · answered by gandalf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I is usually called "Full Frame" -- and it is 3x4 format -- which fits old style TVs.
No -- you will not have black bars on the top and bottom. You will have empty space on the right and left.
If you have an HDTV, you would prefer to use a wide screen format DVD (with the bars on the top and bottom) and then use the Zoom feature to fill the screen.
2006-10-10 00:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on the tv and the dvd player. A lot of modern tv's will automatically adjust it to the 16:9 ratio instead of the normal 4:3. I would assume a hdtv would do that, if not just change the ratio on your tv, easy thing to do.
2006-10-10 00:28:23 · answer #3 · answered by Gman 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Black bars will be to the right and left! but you can zoom the picture to fill your screen, but the quality of the picture will degrade a little.
2006-10-10 01:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by Abady 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some will and some won't it depends on the movie
2006-10-10 00:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
most like just try it and see.
2006-10-10 00:30:33 · answer #6 · answered by besos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋