[opendtv] Re: 70th Anniversary Blu-ray and standard DVDs of the Wizard of Oz

  • From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:26:14 -0400

John Shutt wrote:

Cliff,
If you are truly watching a Blu-Ray disk of Wizard of Oz, it is indeed a 16:9 image, as your first screen captures showed. The video is simply pillarboxed. There is no such thing as a 4:3 HD Blu-Ray. 

Cliff responds: I am playing the BD Oz disk and I understand this point.
If your output is set to 4:3 Pan & Scan, it should fill the 4:3 monitor with the center portion of the video, effectively throwing away the pillar boxing of the Blu-Ray version of The Wiz.
Cliff responds: No, it does not do this at all, ever, at any time. The image is always square, 1:1 no matter what settings I choose on the players.
If both of your Blu-Ray players are not doing this, that's another matter. 

Cliff responds: They both do it. Always.
Do you happen to have both an HDMI cable and an NTSC cable
connected to your Blu-Ray player simultaneously? If so, then the HDMI may be overriding the 4:3 Pan & Scan setting with an implied 16:9 setting. 

John
Cliff responds: No, there is no HDMI cable connected to either player. I am using the component output and the NTSC output.
I have also tried setting the component output to all available formats from 480i to 1080p but in *any* of these modes, the NTSC output displays pillar boxed and square on the NTSC 4:3 display, just as the pics sent previously show. 

Cliff



----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Benham" <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:25 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 70th Anniversary Blu-ray and standard DVDs of the Wizard of Oz 



John Shutt wrote:

Cliff,
What specific make and model Blu-Ray are you using? The instructions for the Philips BDP-7200 Blu-Ray player specifically shows a "4:3 pan and scan" NTSC mode, which is what I always set on my DVD players when connected to a 
4:3 television.
Manual: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/b/bdp7200_f7/bdp7200_f7_dfu_aen.pdf 

Read Page 35.

John
None of the examples on page 35 shows a 1.33:1 4:3 film being played, only 16:9. 
This is the problem I think. 1.33:1 4:3 is being ignored by Blu-ray.

Cliff




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